in connection with literature a most characteristic act of his was to erect in all saints' church, cambridge, a tablet to the memory of henry kirke white, of whom he knew nothing personally, but whose life and poems he ardently admired. in addition to the works already mentioned boott also published 'two lectures on materia medica' in 1837, and he prepared a monograph of 158 species of "carex", which was printed in sir william jackson hooker's 'flora boreali-americana'.