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not necessary liere to repeat the tentative suggestions he made, 

 since the phin actually t'ollowed is before the \\orld. In that 

 same year occurred a check to what seems to have been an ahnost 

 unbroken period ot' vii^orous health. Writing from Burnnioor 

 Kectory on August 1:0, 1877, he explains the disconcerting 

 incident: — "In company with two companions I ascended Ben 

 Xevis. It was clouded at the top but there were fine views 

 di)wn into the gorge in whicli I had been the night before and 

 tine distant views from half-way up. I had reached the bottom 

 and was going across a piece of marshj'^ heath when in exuberance 

 of spirits I took a long leap as far as I could jump and had the 

 misfortune to come down with my left heel on a piece of rock : 

 after which I turned a couple of somersaults. I was a mile and 

 a half from the hotel, and in about an hour and a quarter I got 

 there with the help of the guide. But there was an end of 

 walking as I had ruptured some of the ligaments of the knee." 

 The consequences of this accident were faced with resolute 

 hopefulness by the patient, but it is easy to understand that the 

 process of recoverv was painful and tedious. On Xov. 14 he 

 writes, " My leg has made wonderful progress during the last 

 fortnight and I may now say is wdl, though of course not very 

 strong." In the meantime he had been singularly cheered by the 

 discovery of a box full of important Amphipoda which had been 

 missing for fourteen years owing to a wrong label — an expedient 

 for occultation worthy of living crustaceans! 



A time came when Xorman, with intellect still unclouded, was 

 forced to use an amanuensis for his correspondence and a bath- 

 cliair for out-of-door exercise, and though his death was pi"e- 

 maturely recorded, not much later he peacefully closed his life at 

 Berlihamsted on October 20, 1918. For many years his steady 

 routine work at home had been wonderfully diversified and 

 enlivened by his brief holidays elsewhere. One while he is with 

 AValker at Colwyn Bay, at another with Jolm Murray at Ciimbrae, 

 or with David liobertson in Ireland; six journeys he made to the 

 fruitful waters of Norway ; he worked at the Plymouth Marine 

 Laboratoi'v as well as at the Neapolitan ; his visit to Madeira for 

 health produced a study of the island's terrestrial Isopoda and of 

 its marine Mollusca. He proved himself to many of us an 

 affectionate friend, given to hospitality, to his ])arishioners an 

 earnest and trusted clergyman, and to natural history circles 

 an autliority of high distinction. [T. R. \i. Stkbbijtg.] 



Prof. Hexry GrEOUGE Plimmer, F.E.S. — Prof. Plimmer was born 

 at Melksham, in Wiltshire, on January 29th, 1856 *, and died on 

 June 22nd, 1918, from cancer, the disease he Iiad spent many 



* This is tlie year given by his sole surviving uncle, but possibly, as lie himself 

 thought, it was 1857. For nuich of the material embodied in this notice 

 I am indebted to Mrs. Plimmer, who kindly supplied it from a short auto- 

 biography her husband left behind him. 



