A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. XXI 



of the Rhizopoda of the Manchester area in the same 

 year. This paper added several species to the British 

 list and seems to have revived in this country an 

 interest in these creatures, which had greatly fallen off 

 since the days of William Archer and J. H. Carter. 



Much more recently he contributed a paper to the 

 Linnean Society " On some new and little known 

 British Freshwater Rhizopoda " in which he described 

 two new genera, Penardia and Difflugiella, and four 

 new species.* 



James Cash was a very modest, retiring man, as 

 may be gathered from an appreciation contributed by 

 Mr. W. A. Shovelton, who was under him on the 

 reporting staff of the ' Manchester Guardian ' for a 

 quarter of a century. 



Mr. Shovelton indeed says that with a desire to say 

 unreservedly what was in his heart of his old friend, 

 he was yet checked by the thought that all through 

 his life he disliked anything which sounded of 

 panegyric, modesty indeed being a marked feature of 

 his character. He had, Mr. Shovelton says, ability far 

 above the average ; he had a wide and thoroughly 

 accurate knowledge of English literature, and was 

 specially skilled in several branches of science; attain- 

 ments which fitted him for a high position ; but his 

 natural timidity, his dislike of ostentation or of any- 

 thing like self-advertisement, prevented him from 

 winning that full recognition to which his merits 

 entitled him. 



His sons, who furnished the information for the first 

 part of this sketch of his life, say : " His pleasures 

 were always simple and homely. He loved to spend 

 his leisure hours amongst his family at his own fire- 



* ' Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool.' vol. xxix, pp. 217-225, pi. xxvi (1904). 



