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forms of this difficult order and acquaiutaucc with the most receut 

 writings of European licheiiologista. Otlxer collectious he worked 

 up were those of Seexnanu's Arctic Lieheas iu Hooker's ' Journal 

 of Botany ' for 1851, and those of the ' Herald,' and the 

 Lichens of Sfcrachey aud Winterbottom in 1817-18 ; thg Lichens 

 of New Zealand were also elaborated by him, and were afterwards 

 referred to by Sir Joseph Hooker as the production of a learned 

 man and sagacious lichenist. He had also a good knowledge of 

 flowering plants and, in coujuaction with the Hqv. AndrewBloxam, 

 he drew up a list of those growing in Charnwood Forest, which 

 was published in T. 11. Potter's account of that part of Leicester- 

 shire in 1812, and a list for the whole county in Watson's ' New 

 Botanists' Guide.' The chapelry of Horningsey, in Cambridge- 

 shire, was held by him from 181G to 1861 ; but in 1866 he was 

 presented to the living of Cockfield, Suffolk, which he held until 

 his death. In 1869 he married Matilda AVhyte, the third daughter 

 of Colonel J. A. Wilson, E..A. He took the degree of Doctor of 

 Divinity in 1879, and the following year he was elected an 

 Honorary Fellow of his College. One of the last works upon 

 which he was occupied was the ' Birds of Suffolk,' which appeared 

 in 1886, and he largely contributed to Dr. Hinds's ' Flora of 

 Suffolk ' now in course of preparation. His strength was never 

 fully recovered after a very severe illness four years before his 

 decease in 1889. On January 3rd of that year he was attacked 

 by rheumatic fever, died on the 12th of that month, and was 

 buried on the 17th in his old parish of Cockfield. 



It was as a naturalist tliat we knew him best ; but no account 

 of him would be approximately complete without some reference 

 to his distinguished attainments as a profound and elegant 

 scholar. He was the most eminent Greek palaeographer resident 

 at Cambridge in his day, aud he edited the ' Oration of Hyperides' 

 from a difficult papyrus in the British Museum. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society January 18, 1853 ; 

 but so long ago as 1839 a paper by him on " British Lichens and 

 Fungi " had been coannuuicated to the Society, of which an 

 abstract will be found in our ' Proceedings,' i. (1839) p. 32. 



William Hellieh BiiLif was born at Bristol, July 7, 1819. 

 At the age of eighteen he entered the Bristol Museum as Assist- 

 ant Curator, and held that post for seven years. Inheriting the 

 artistic tastes of liis grandfather, father, and uncle — the latter 

 being the well-known sculptor and Academician — he was attached 

 in 1811 as draughtsman to the Geological Survey of Great Britain ; 

 and in the following year was appointed Assistant Geologist 

 under Sir Henry Do la Beche, his duties being conhucd to pakc- 

 ontological work. In 1857 he was appointed Palajontologist to 

 the Irish Survey, a post he held until his death. In 1868 he was 

 appointed Demonstrator in Palseoutology to the Royal College of 

 Science for Ireland. 



