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A volume (watermark 1801) written probably in the same hand as Cwrtmawr MS 531C containing descriptive notes on British plants based on [William] Withering, An arrangement of British plants. The writer has subsequently marked those which are included by W. Bingley in 'A Catalogue of the more uncommon Welsh plants, with their places of growth' (see W. Bingley, A Tour round North Wales, performed during the summer of 1798 (London, 1800), Vol II, p. 371), and sometimes the habitat given by Bingley is inserted. On p. 42 is a list of 'Plants mentioned in Mr Arthur Aikin's Tour thro' North Wales in ye Summer 1796.' There is an index at the beginning of the volume but this is rather confusing as the pages are numbered in two consecutive series, pp. 1-44 and 1-31.

A volume containing a descriptive account of 'Fishes, Shell Fish & Insects', with an index, written apparently at Helion Bumpsted [sic], [Essex] in 1804-5. The first section (pp. 1-28) is headed ' The Natural History of Fishes', where in some cases the Welsh equivalents are given of the names of the species described. At the end of the volume, following p. 68, are notes 'from Mortimer's Treatise on Husbandry' [i.e. J. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry]. [According to information received from Mr F. C. Newton, County Archivist, Essex Record Office, Chelmsford in letters dated 7 and 17 August 1970 the author of this manuscript was the Reverend Henry Rogers, curate of Helions Bumpstead at the time (see Venn Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, 1752-1900, Vol. V, p. 344).].