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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



WITHAM MATTHEW BYWATER. 



Born 1825; died 1911. 



It is with great regret we have to record the death of Mr. 

 Bywater, which took place, after a short illness, on March 1st, 

 in his eighty-sixth year. Unfamiliar as his name will be to 

 many of the present members of the Q.M.C., yet we of to-day 

 owe him a deep debt of gratitude in that he was one of its 

 founders, and for four years served as Hon. Seeretary. Dr. 

 M. C. Cooke, under date March 7th, writes : " I am afraid 

 that in my last letter I did not express adequately the sense of 

 gratitude which every Queketter must feel to the late W. M. 

 Bywater for his valuable services to the Club as Secretary 

 during the early years of its existence. His business habits and 

 gentlemanly courtesy were in good stead, and he was always at 

 his post." 



Dr. Cooke and Mr. Bywater became acquainted half a century 

 ago, before the starting of Science Gossip, and they were at 

 that time in the habit of meeting periodically in Mr. Bywater's 

 office at 5, Hanover Square, about once a fortnight, to discuss 

 microscopic subjects and compare specimens. " Our two hours' 

 gossip ended about ten o'clock with a glass of whisky and cigar, 

 but were not continued after the Q.M.C. was started," 



Mr. Bywater was at that time manager to Messrs. Wilkinson 

 k Kidd, harness-makers, and lived with his family over their 

 premises at 5, Hanover Square. Mr. Lewis remembers spending 

 two evenings there with Mr. Bywater and Mr, Ketteringham, 

 making out and addressing the tickets for the first Qiiekett 

 Soiree. Mr. Bywater contributed a short article to Science 

 Gossip, February 18G5, "A Chapter on Hairs," containing 

 microscopic illustrations, and another article in May on " Pig- 

 ment Cells," also illustrated ; but did not, so far as we can learn, 

 contribute anything to the Proceedings of our Club. 



Mr. Bywater retired from the secretaryship of the Club at the 



