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future generations a lasting heritage, a record of good work nobly 

 performed. 



Sladen was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and also of the- 

 Geological, and he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean on March 2,. 

 1876. 



John Storeie, one of the last elected Associates of the Linnean 

 Society, who died at Cardiff on 2nd May, 1901, from a compli- 

 cation of disorders, at the age of 57, was in every sense a remark- 

 able man, the limitations of whose largely self-acquired knowledge- 

 extended from coins and china to the Mastodon and brick-earth, 

 with a special leaning to field-botany. He was born in Muirgett,. 

 Lanarkshire, and educated at various schools in Scotland, and in 

 due time apprenticed to a printer. As such he migrated in turn 

 from Scotland to Barrow and Manchester, the South of England 

 and Wales. While following this vocation, he in his spare time 

 laid the foundations of his scientific knowledge, always with a pre- 

 ference for botany ; for as a mere lad he had already amassed so 

 excellent a collection of Scottish alpine plants, that he gained an 

 annual prize awarded by a Glasgow merchant for the encouragement 

 of youth. He later acquired scholastic distinctions in botany and 

 geology. In the latter branch of learning he made the acquaintance- 

 of Professor Page of Glasgow, and to him, as he was incapacitated 

 bj' lameness, Storrie became of great service in the field, Storrie's 

 entry into Cardiff was in the employ of the ' Western Mail,' and he 

 at once interested himself in a museum movement then under con- 

 sideration, with the result that, on the opening of the institution in 

 the evenings which resulted, Storrie was appointed Curator. With 

 this he saw his chance, and lost no time in scouring the neighbour- 

 hood in search of specimens and materials with which he rapidly 

 enriched the collections. Leaving Cardift' for a period, Storrie 

 returned and became the Curator of the present Museum in Trinity 

 Street, which he raised to a position of much importance and 

 educational value, ultimately retiring from its charge amidst the 

 regrets and tangible congratulations of his friends. True to his 

 love of botany, he early aimed at forming a complete flora of the 

 Cardiff area, and with no little originality commenced with a series 

 of notes on the " Ballast Plants," i. e. those brought to the port 

 which are indigenous to other localities. Continuing this line of 

 work, he later produced ' The Flora of Cardiff,' a book embodying 

 a dozen years of laborious research, which was published by the 

 local " jSTaturalists' Society" in 1886 ; and of this it is said a valuable 

 addition exists in MS. 



Beyond this Storrie was a good field-geologist, and in that capacity 

 he discovered at Lavernoek and worked out the detailed structure 

 of a tooth of a new species of Mastodonsaurus, while in his explo- 

 ration of the Silurian at Rumney he succeeded in finding some 

 plant-remains which proved to be of unique value ; and in Nemato- 

 jiJujlus Siorriei, the name applied to one of them, his memory Avill 

 be perpetuated. Among Storrie's further researches were those 



