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visitation of his parishioners, he acquired a knowledge of their 

 wants, and their sincere regard, in a marked degree. 



He was elected a Fellow ISth March, 1875, and died at Madeley, 

 on 4th June, 1904. A movement is on foot to place a memorial 

 window in the church in which he ministered so long. A portrait 

 is given in the 'Transactions' of the North Staffs. Field Club, 

 1904-5. [B, 13. J.] 



James Errs, junr., died at his house, Eeulah Hill, Upper Norwood, 

 in March 1905 ; he had been a Fellow of this Society since 5th 

 March, 1885. In the 'Transactions' of the Croydon Natural 

 History and Scientific Society for lJ'02-03, he published a paper 

 entitled " A Trip to the AVest Indies," describing the various objects 

 of natural history noticed by him, but especially investigating the 

 cocoa plants in the various islands, their a arieties, diseases, insect- 

 pests and the like. He was naturally drawn to this as the business 

 lirm in v^hich he was a partner was largely interested in the 

 manufacture of cocoa. This address was given to the Croydon 

 Society shortly before the end of his Presidency of two years, he 

 having been a member since 1881. On one occasion he had 

 exhibited cocoa-pods grown aud ripened at his Norwood residence, 

 for which he was awarded a Silver Banksian Medal by the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society. [B. D. J.] 



William Feeguson, F.G.S., died at his residence, Kinmundy, 

 Aberdeenshire, in 1004 ; he had been a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society since 6th June, 1854, in which year he joined the Greological 

 Society, to whose publications he contributed a paper in 1857 

 on the " Chalk-flints and Greensand found in Aberdeenshire." 



WiCKHAM Flower, F.S.A., was the eldest son of John Wickham 

 Flower, of Park Hill, Croydon, and was born in that town, in 1835, 

 receiving his education at Tonbridge School. A solicitor in large 

 practice, he delighted to give his spare time to his garden and to 

 antiquities. He issued ' Dante, a defence of the aucient text of the 

 Divina Commedia ' in 1897, and ' Aquitaine ; a Traveller's Tale,' 

 illustrated by J. Pennell, in the same year. 



At the time of his death, 19th September, 1904, he was engaged 

 on the history of Great Tangley Manor, his country seat, a very 

 interesting place dating from the time of Henry VII., surrounded 

 by a moat, and having an extensive garden attached. Indoors it 

 contained a splendid collection of pictures, tapestries, glass, and 

 old books. He joined this Society so recently as 20th January, 

 1898. [B. D. J.] 



Alexander Fey was born at Pencraig, Herefordshire, on 10th 

 September, 1821, and educated at Hazelwood near Birmingham, 

 with a year at Neuilly, in the arrondissement of St. Denis, near Paris. 

 In 1835, a boy of little more than fourteen years of age, he was 

 sent out to Rio de Janeiro, where his father was engaged in 

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