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liis fossils, except a special selection of gfaptolites which he gave 

 to the Woodsvardiau Museum, Cambridge. At this time he left 

 St. Albans and settled again at Watford iu the house built by his 

 faihei", M hich was liis home to the end. 



The affairs of the Hay Society became of increasing interest to 

 Mr. Hopkinsoii : in lb8*J he became a member of the Council, iu 

 1899 the treasurer, and iu 1902, upon the death of the Kev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire, its secretary and centre of its activities. 



In 1913 he retired from business, when his Urm was turned 

 into a company, remaining on the board as a director; from this 

 time he was free to employ his full tiuie in the service of the two 

 societies so dear to him. During the war he was compelled to 

 relinquish evening meetings as, owing to the reduced lighting and 

 his ow-n extreiue short-sight, In.' was hainliiappeil in walking. 



To the last our late Fellow was alert and \ igurous, and probably 

 his last visit to any of the societies to which he belonged was to ' 

 our Society on the afternoon of Friday, July 4th, 1919, when he 

 •discussed a point of administration of the Kay Society; a few 

 hours later he was dead of heart failure, early on the morning of 

 the 5th July, leaving a gap in the band of earnest naturalists 

 not easily to be filled, lie was buried on Thursday afternoon, 

 10th July, at AVatford Cemetery, Mr. Charles t)ldham and 

 JMr. Wilfred Mark Webb representing the Linuean Society. 



[B' D. J.] 



The ranks of critical British botanists have sustained a severe 

 loss by the unexpected death of the Eev. Edavaul) Siiearbukn 

 Maesuall, on the 25tli Kovember, 1919. 



Born iu Park Lane on the 7th March, 1858, our late Fellow 

 was privately educated in England and Germany, entering Marl- 

 borough College in September 1873, where he remained nearly 

 four years, obtaining an Old Marlburian Scholarship ( 1876) ihe 

 vear alter be left, an Exhibition, and a Scholarship at Brasenose 

 ■College, Oxford. At the University he took a Second Class in 

 •Classical Moderations in 1879 and u Third Class in History 

 in 1881, the year he graduated B.A., proceeding M.A. in 1884. 

 He w'as at Wells Theological College in 1882, ordained deacon in 

 1883, and priest in 1885, the Marlborough Mission at Tottenham 

 sup|)lying his title to orders. 



From this curacy he moved to another at Witley, Surrey, and 

 whilst there he married on Kith August, 1887, Fainiy Isabel 

 Foster, a niece of Birket Foster, the water-colour artist. In 1890 

 lie became A'icar of Milford, \\here he stayed ten years: from 

 1900-02 he was Curate-iu-charge of Lavington-cum-Graffbani, 

 Sussex, then Vicar of Keevil in AViltshire, and in 1904 he became 

 Hector of West Monkton, his last clerical post. 



He had complained for some years of lits of depression, which 

 increased in intensity and frequency; in the middle of 1918 he 

 suffered from a nervous breakdown, even fainting in the pulpit. 

 Acting on medical advice, he made arrangements for withdrawing 



