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he passed to the employment of Mr. Henry Deane, F.L.S., at 

 Clapliam, one of the original Fellows of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society. He was anxious to complete the botany course and 

 attend tlie lectures then given at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, but his employer refused him permission, on the 

 plea that he could not be spared. This spurred him on to further 

 reading, though business liours were from 7 a.m. to 9.30 p.m., 

 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. being the time he allotted to sleep, until 12th 

 December, 1868, " when I passed the Major in honours. When Mr. 

 Deane, who was an examiner, came home that evening he greeted 

 me very warmly, and said, ' Martin, I am as proud of you to-day 

 as if you were my son.' £t appears that I obtained the highest 

 marks of the session. Daniel H anbury, who lived at Clapham, 

 and who had examined me, came into Heane's shop specially to 

 congratulate me. ... I stayed at Mr. Heane's the next four 

 or five years until I went into business on my own account 

 and ... I continued scientific work and mounted during that 

 time about 1000 microscope-slides. On my olf-evenings one 

 winter I . . . examined several batches of dredgings ... So 

 my attention was turned to h'oraminifera." 



Mr. Martin's partner, Henry Bowman Brady, was an eminent 

 authority on Foraminit'era, and the ' Challenger ' dredgings were 

 consigned to him for examination and report, which came out in 

 the yth volume of the quarto reports in 1884. 



Mr. Martin served on the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, 

 and presided at Pharmaceutical Conferences at Oxford and 

 Bournemouth in 1894-5, and his addresses were highly appreciated. 

 Since 1898 he had been Justice of the Peace for J^ewcastle-upon- 

 Tyne. He threw himself energetically into educational matters, 

 and being a fluent and rapid speaker, he was somewhat of a terror 

 to the local reporters. He rarely came to London without paying a 

 visit to the Society and its meetings. He was elected a Fellow 

 on the 3rd March, 1881. He died on the 5th July, 1916, and 

 was buried on the 8th at Jesmond Old Cemetery. A characteristic 

 portrait will be found in 'The Chemist and Druggist,' vol. ix. 

 p. 135, whence some of our information has been obtained. 



[B. D. J.] 



GrEORGE Edward Masseb, the well-known mycologist and plant- 

 pathologist, was born at Scampston in Yorkshire about the year 

 1850. At the age of ten he was sent to school at York. It is 

 interesting to note that even in his early days he showed a talent 

 for drawing and a love of natural history, gaining at the York 

 School of Art a national medal, and when about seventeen 

 years old publishing a paper on AVoodpeckers in the 'Intellectual 

 Observer.' 



He disliked the idea of following his father as a farmer, and, 

 eager for ad\enture, readily accepted the ofl'er of Richard Spruce, 

 who was a relative of his mother, to accompany him on his expedi- 

 tion to South America. On this trip he collected plants on the 



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