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now assured to them by the generosity of Mr. T. H. Riches. 

 Many years ago he sent ine E. D. Cope's ' Origin of the Fittest,' 

 saying that he had read it and had no furtlier use for it. 1 

 suggested that he should present it to the Library of the Hope 

 Department, but he would not consent until he had first ascer- 

 tained that the Liunean Society already possessed a copy. I well 

 remember, too, how cordially he agreed with my suggestion that 

 G. W. Sleeper's booklet should be placed in the Linneau Libraiy. 



The culmination of Wallace's life, July 1, 1908, was also 

 intimately bound up with the Linneau Society. The admirable 

 Memorial Volume, issued b}^ the Society, makes it unnecessary to 

 refer to the events of that great day, which will assuredly h\'e as 

 an abiding inspiration in the memory of everyone who was 

 fortunate enough to be present. 



AVallace himself, although he was eminently sociable and 

 delighted in converse with his friends, was strongly averse to 

 publicity and ceremony of every kind ; and I think that his 

 appearance on that momentous anniversary was due to a sense 

 of duty, and not from pleasure. He felt that it was a unique 

 opportunity of paying homage to the mighty genius whose name 

 had been, and will ever be, associated with his own *. 



[E. B. POULTOX.] 



[The subject of the foregoing memoir was born at Usk, in 

 Monmouthshire, Sth January, 1823, and was therefore in his 

 91st year at the time of his death.] 



AYlLLiAM West. — Algology has lost its foremost British exponent 

 by the death at Bradford^ on the 14th May, lUU, of William 

 West. He was a native of Leeds, where, on the edge of Wood- 

 house Moor, he was born on the 22nd of February, 1848. He 

 studied for the Pharmaceutical profession, proceeding to regis- 

 tration on the Kith February, 1870. He removed to Bradford, 

 and set up in business there in 1872. Two years later he was 

 married to Hannah Wainwright, also a native of Woodhouse 

 Moor, Leeds, and they had two sons and a daughter ; Mrs. AVest 

 died in 1904, after a long and tedious illness. All the children 

 inherited the paternal ability, the two sons passing through Cam- 

 bridge University with distinction and applying themselves to 

 botanical work. The elder son, William, died at Mozuffer|)ur in 

 Bihar in 1901, very soon after taking up a biological research 

 appointment ; and the younger, George, is now Professor of 

 Botany at the University of Birmingham. The subject of this 

 notice in 1886 took up science teaching professionally on being 

 appointed Lecturer in Botany at the Bradford Technical College, 

 atterwards adding the teaching of Biology and Pharmacology. 



* See also the Obituarj- by the present writer in ' The Zoologist,' Dec. 

 1913, p. 468, parts of vviiich Lave been adapted for incorporation in the above 

 notice. 



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