XX JAMES CASH I 



interest Mr. Cash took in the British mosses, and 

 doubtless, if he had not been drawn to confine his 

 limited time to the study of the Rhizopoda, he would, 

 with his general knowledge, his keen and critical 

 observation, and his power as an artist for his draw- 

 ings of the mosses which he described were exceedingly 

 beautiful have attained a position in the forefront of 

 British bryologists. His moss collection and MSS. 

 relating to mosses have been presented by his widow 

 to the Manchester Museum where they will form a 

 valuable addition to the already rich collection of 

 mosses. 



" Although having to live a very busy life, with 

 little opportunities for study and research, Mr. Cash 

 was always most generous in helping others. He was 

 a man of large heart and broad sympathies, and he 

 proved his interest in the working-man naturalists of 

 Lancashire by the publication of his book [previously 

 mentioned] : ' Where there's a Will there's a Way,' 

 a delightful little volume now very scarce, which 

 certainly deserves to be reprinted. 



" A French botanist has commemorated his name in 

 a moss collected at Southport Amblystegium cashii" 



The study of mosses may seem to have but little 

 connection with that of freshwater Rhizopoda, but it 

 is not so. By " freshwater " we include Ehizopoda 

 whose habitat is on such a moist surface as that of a 

 damp moss or even damp earth, and doubtless the 

 microscopical examination of mosses led Mr. Cash to 

 take up the investigation of microscopic creatures 

 living upon them. When he first turned his attention 

 from the mosses to the rhizopods we do not know, but 

 in 1891 he read a paper before the Manchester Micro- 

 scopical Society giving the results of his investigation 



