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THOMAS HUGHES BUFFHAM. 

 Born December, 1840; Died February, 1896. 



Every member will, we are sure, learn with the utmost 

 regret of the loss the Club has sustained by the death of Mr. 

 T. H. Buff ham, A.L.S., which occurred on February 9th. 



Born and educated at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, in early 

 life he entered business in a small country town where he 

 remained until he became manager of the concern. During 

 this period he became greatly interested in Astronomy, and 

 possessing a good telescope he did some excellent work on 

 double and coloured stars, many of his observations being 

 recorded in the "Astronomical Notices " and other periodicals. 

 On removing to London his health began to fail, and he was 

 compelled to give up night work with the telescope and turned 

 his attention to the microscope, joining the Quekett Club in 

 1877. Starting, as most amateurs do, without any fixed plan 

 he simply employed the instrument in a general way until on a 

 visit to Teignmouth in 1881, when finding an alga with anthe- 

 ridia, not described in Harvey's work, he soon found how much 

 remained unknown in this department, and took up the study 

 of the marine alga? in earnest. Having received much help 

 from the Club in his early microscopical days he considered 

 that it had the first claim on anything he produced, and thus 

 the larger part of his work has appeared in the pages of this 

 Journal, some other papers being published in "Grevillea" 

 and the " Journal of Botany." Mr. Buffham was a man of 

 great intellectual capacity and wide reading, and when it is 

 considered how much he accomplished, in spite of the anxieties 

 involved in the management of a large business, joined to 

 persistent bad health following a most serious illness, this 

 affords the highest testimony to his unremitting energy, 

 perseverance and strength of will. His removal is a serious 

 loss to us all and will long be felt. 



