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Sphaeriidae and the supplementary Trichopterygidse, of which the 

 Eev. A. Matthews had left the unfinished MSS. at the time of 

 his death, but he had no time for original research owing to the 

 exigencies of his very large and widespread professional practice. 

 Mr. Mason was greatly respected in Burton-on-Trent and will 

 be much missed in many ways. The ' Lancet ' of November 13th, 

 1903, speaks of him as " a man of sterling qualities and excellent 

 intellectual gifts," but only those who knew him intimately can 

 bear testimony to the simple geniality of his character and his 

 true kindliness of heart. [W. W. Fo^vler.] 



William PErr?rEY, A.L.S., who died in 1903, first appears in 

 the records of the Society at a very distant date. The minutes of 

 the meeting held March 18, 1856, giving a variant of his name, 

 say : " William Penny of Poole, in the County of Dorset, was 

 proposed as an Associate, and his Certificate signed Thos. Bell, 

 Pres*., James Salter, Eobert Bentley, was ordered to be suspended." 

 His election followed on the 3rd of June, but in the long sub- 

 sequent period during which he held the Associateship we do not 

 find that he ever contributed to the Transactions or the Journal. 

 The Eoyal Society Catalogue assigns but a single paper to his 

 name, and that an essay of very small extent, published in the 

 Pharmaceutical Journal for 1852, on " Similarity in the Medical 

 Properties of two Species of Cotyledon" Mr. Penney observes 

 that " it would be interesting to know whether the leaves of the 

 Cotyledon utnbilicits, or any other crassulaceous plant in this 

 country, possess the same property of removing corns " as that 

 attributed in Pappe's ' Prodromus ' to the South-African Cotyledon 

 orbicidata, Linn. We may well suppose that the youthful author's 

 own feet were at the time in too sound a condition to permit of 

 his solving the problem by a personal experiment. The medical 

 virtues of the plant in question are an accepted part of " folk- 

 medicine." Mr. Penney at the close of his life was still of Poole, 

 Dorset, as he had been at the time of his nomination. 



Sir Waltee Joseph Sendall, G.C.M.G., Hon. LL.D. Edinb., 

 was born at Norwich, on Christmas Eve, 1832, the youngest son 

 of the Eev. S. Sendall ; he was educated at Bury St. Edmunds 

 Grammar School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was 

 in residence with Walter Besaut and C. S. Calverley (whose sister 

 he married). Sendall obtained a first class in the Classical Tripos 

 and was a Junior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos. He joined 

 the educational branch of the Ceylon Civil Service in 1859 ; in 

 1870 he became Director of Public Instruction there ; in 1876 

 General Inspector of the Local Government Board, in London, and 

 two years later its Assistant Secretary. Nominated in 1882 

 Governor of Natal, the appointment was opposed by the Colony, 

 and Sir Henry Bulwer was appointed in his place. In 1885 he 



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