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published ; it contains not only an appreciation of our late Fellow 

 (pp. 7U-72) but liis last papers — " Some rare and interesting local 

 Isopods," and " Preliminary list of tlie marine and freshw ater 

 Isopods recorded from the Bournemouth area." — B. D. J.] 



SirHowAKD Waebubton Elphinstone, third Baronet, was born 

 in London, 26tli July, 1830, the eldest son of the second baronet, 

 and succeeded to the title in 1893 ; for thirteen days he was the 

 Senior Fellow of the Linnean Society, in succession to Prof. 

 Daniel Oliver, and died at his house, Struan, Wimbledou Park, 

 on the 3rd January of the present year. 



From Eton he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 graduating as 17th wrangler in 1854. He was called to the Bar 

 from Lincoln's Inn in 1862, and subsequently became Lecturer to 

 the Incorporated Law Society from 18G9 to 1871, Professor of 

 Eeal Property Law to the Inns of Court, 1889 to 1892, and Reader 

 on the Law of Eeal Property, Inns of Court, 1892-96. He was 

 Conveyancing Counsel to the Court, 1895 to 1914, when he retired 

 from practice. 



He was author of several legal handbooks, and in 1872 issued 

 his 'Patterns for Turning'; photography Avas another of his relaxa- 

 tions. His election as Fellow took place on the 17th February, 

 1859. [B. D. J.] 



William Foggitt was born on February 2, 1835, at Yarm, on the 

 Yorkshire side of the Tees. His father moved to Thirsk, the chief 

 town in the Vale of Mowbray, when William was about a year 

 old, and started a chemist and druggist's business in the Market 

 Place. William went first to the local school, then to a school at 

 Tadcaster. At an early date he fell in with John's 'Flowers of 

 the Field ' and began to press and collect plants. He came home, 

 went into his father's business, and in due time was made a partner. 

 There were several young men at Thirsk interested in Natural 

 History, and they formed themselves into the Thirsk Natural 

 History Society, and cai-efully explored the suri'ouuding country, 

 both the lowlands and the Hambleton Hills. One of his early 

 friends was J. G. Baker, and these two joined the London 

 Botanical Society. When the Society came to an end, they carried 

 on the distribution of plants from Thirsk, and this was the com- 

 mencement of the Botanical Exchange Club, which has now been 

 in existence more than fifty years. 



William Foggitt was very keen-sighted, and had a splendid 

 memory, and whatever he took up he did most thoroughly. He 

 was a very good British botanist, though he wrote comparatively 

 little. He was one of the principal authorities on the plants of the 

 fascinating Vale of Mowbray, and he frequently explored Teesdale 

 and Yoredale. 



He wrote an account of the Botany for two local books by 

 Edmund Bogg, one on the Vale of Mowbray, the other on Yoredale. 

 In conjunction with J. G. Baker, in 1866, he wrote the curator's 



