LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 4 1 



February, 1844, the sixth son of Julius William Cole, of Kim- 

 berton, Huutingdonsliire, a Trinity House oilicial, and his wife 

 Frances, granddaughter of Jolm Love, of Ci'ostwick Hall, INorth 

 Walshani, Norfolk. His education was gained at various private 

 schools, and from evening classes at King's College, Htrand. In 

 1861, when 17, he entered the ollice of a sliipbroker in Mark 

 Lane. His father dying in 1865, the family moved, first to 

 Islington froiu Tottenham, and next to Clapton, and William 

 entered a barrister's chambers as shorthand writer, and remained 

 five years, and then joined the staff of a newspaper in the same 

 ca])acit3'. 



Another removal in 1877 to Ruckhurst Hill brought him into 

 touch \Aith Epping Forest, and in the beginning of 1880, the Essex 

 Field Club was started. He had been elected member of the 

 Entomological Society in 1S73, which he retained to the end of 

 liis life ; and F.L 8. on the 16th January, 1896, till loth December, 

 I'JlO, when he witlidrew, and was elected an Associate on that date ; 

 this was following a nervous breakdown earlier in the year. A 

 grant from the Koyal Society, obtained through his old friend 

 liaphael Meldola, enabled him to travel abroad, and produced an 

 improvement in his health, but he aged perceptibly, and a return of 

 his iUness in 1916 was not to be shaken off, and he had to give up 

 mucii of his activity. In 1919, by favour of some powerful friends, 

 he was granted a Civil List Pension of ^50 per annum, and with 

 a further pension of =£75 raised by friends, he was able to retire to 

 St. Osyth. The Essex Field Club owes him a debt of gratitude for 

 the unstinted service he gave during a long series of years to its 

 interest ; he seemed the personilication of the Club. 



AN^e are indebted to a sympathetic obituary in the 'Essex 

 Naturalist ' for much of the information in the foregoing sketch, 

 and in the same Journal, Oct. 1922-Mar. 1923, will be found a 

 portrait of our late Associate. [B. D. J.] 



Henry Joiix Elwes, F.L.S., F.E.S. — Henry John Elwes was 

 born on May 16th, 1846. He was educated at Elon, served five 

 years in the Scots Guards, and thereafter devoted himself to horti- 

 culture, arboriculture, ornithology, entomology, travel, and sport. 



In 1891 he succeeded to the estate of Colesborne in Gloucester- 

 shire, and there cultivated a great diversity of plants and trees. 

 He had, in 1880, published a fine monogiaph on Lilies, and 

 became a recognised authority on the genus, but he also cultivated 

 tulips, crocuses, Nerines, and many species of succulents, some of 

 which he had himself introduced. 



A very active member, aiul at one time President, of the Royal 

 English Arboricultural Society, he was responsible for the intro- 

 duction of several trees into this country, amongst tliem two of 

 the South American beeches — Xotliofagus (nitarctica and Notho- 

 fagus ohliqua, whilst of the Western American larch (Lari.v occi- 

 dentalis) he was the Mrst to obtain seed of any (juantity. 



