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-established, and sliortly afterwards another suggestion of our late 

 Fellow bore ample fruit, that of establishing sections for each 

 branch within the Union, now con)posed of more than 40 local 

 societies. Mr. lloebuck was President in 1908, and, as the subject 

 for his Address, placed on record a full and authoritative history 

 of the Union and its organ, ' The Naturalist,' from their 

 beginning. 



The Fungus Forays were instituted by him, and were so 

 successful that other societies have copied this branch of field- 

 work. The first foray was held in 1881 at Studley and Harrogate ; 

 tlie second took place in 1888, and finally produced their result — 

 ' The Fungus Flora of Yorkshire,' by G. M;isseeand C. Crossland. 

 Mr. Roebuck' was honorary secretary and one of the moving 

 8|)irits of the Union for nearly 30 years, and from 1884 to 1902 

 sole editor of 'The Naturalist,' with short intervals of collabora- 

 tion, and to him fell all the arrangements for excursions and 

 business meetings. 



In conjunction with Dr. W. E. Clarke he prepared and ])ub- 

 lished ' The A-^ertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire.' During 1904- 0(5 

 he travelled in Australia, New Zealand, Iiulia, 8outh Africa, and 

 Egypt, with special reference to the stud}" of mollusca designedly 

 or unwittingly introduced by man. 



In 1915 the University of Leeds conferred upon him the 

 honorary tlegree of Master of Science. He was latterly engaged 

 u[)on the task of placing in glass-topped boxes all freshw ater shells 

 in the Linnean collections, and almost the last connnuuication 

 received from him was a detailed re])ort upon this completed 

 work. A sudden paralytic seizure on the evening of 19th January 

 last, when ajipareutly full of health and strength, alarmed his 

 friends: gratlually he recovered from this attack, when a second 

 seizure took place, and he gradually sank, dying as above men- 

 tioned on the 15tli February, 1919, aged 68. His remains were 

 cremated two daj's later at Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, with a 

 large gathering of friends from various societies attending in token 

 of respect. He was elected a Fellow of the Liiuiean Nocietv on 

 the 1st May, 1884. [B. D. J.J 



EiCHAiiu Williams 11 ahold How died on February IGth, 

 1919, from pneumonia, following upon influenza, at the age of 34. 

 He was the son of tlie late Rev. K. AY. Row, of Exeter, and 

 received his early education at Mount Radford School. After 

 spending some time at Exeter University College and the Royal 

 College of Science, South Kensington, he entered the Zoological 

 Department of King's College, London, in 1906. in the 

 following year he took the degree of Bachelor of Science in the 

 University of Loudon, with first class honours in zoology. From 

 that time until the day of his death he was a niendjer of the staff 

 of the Zoological Department of King's College, where his success 



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