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John Emmet, who died on 12th Januarj', 1901, at the age of 

 78 years, was a man of culture, much interested in natural history 

 pursuits. From Boston Spa, in Yorkshire, where he lived, he for 

 several years contributed to the pages of the popular scientific 

 journals. ' Chambers's Journal,' the ' Xaturalist,' and ' Science 

 Gossip ' were those chiefly patronized : the study of botany, of 

 antiquities, and conchology were the favourite themes. Beyond 

 this, he on several occasions essayed verse in the columns of the 

 Yorkshire newspapers. He travelled mostly while young, and on his 

 continental tours he was introduced to Pope Leo XIII. and to 

 Victor Hugo ; while he was to be envied in the enjoyment of the 

 friendship of Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, Montgomery, and 

 Chas. Waterton. 



He was elected a Fellow of theLinnean Society loth January, ISSo. 



In Frederick Gould, who died on 3Ionday, 23rd July, 1901, at 

 Kingston in Surrey, there has been removed from that town the 

 man who for more than half a century has been the leader in all 

 that concerned its public life and welfare, llising to the position 

 of Mayor, Alderman, and Justice of the Peace, he, by his pioneer's 

 exertion iu public works, has left behind him a record of noble 

 things achieved, which will render his name a local talisman for 

 generations to come. He was born at Bath in 1817, and was in 

 his 84th year at the time of death. Apprenticed to a firm of 

 well-known chemists in Bath city, he early evinced a desire for 

 the " mutual improvement " of his friends and those about him, 

 apparently as the direct result of the influence of one of liis 

 employers. The latter, a Mr. Sainsbury, was at the time a lecturer 

 at the Bath Hospital and Philosophic Institution, and a friend of 

 (Ersted, who kept au fait with the great work which Oersted was 

 then achieving in electricity, which he endeavoured to repeat for 

 himself with the aid of young Gould. With this influence well at 

 heart, Gould, in 1839, moved to Kingston, and in due course founded 

 a "Literary and Scientific Institute,'" of which he became the first 

 President, delivering lectures in person and with great enterprise, 

 drawing unto himself and his Institution lectureis of renown and 

 audiences large and keenly enthusiastic. For long years he main- 

 tained his interest iu this and other educational projects, founded 

 in the Kingston district either by himself or with his aid. in 1809 

 presenting to the town a valuable museum wliioh he had meanwhile 

 developed. He was ever a gardener, and delighted in nothing 

 more than floral nature, and even when, with advancing age, he 

 was unable to leave his chair, he would be wheeled into the open, 

 to superintend the improvements and all that concerned the 

 Public Gardens, which were always his pride. Keenly interested 

 in nature and scientific pursuits, he brought these and their in- 

 fluence to bear in the numerous high capacities in which he served 

 (for he was Alderman, Mayor, Borough Magistrate, and ever a 

 staunch defender of the public rights), and in so doing contributed 

 not a little to the higher cultivation of the public mind. 



