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ambitious undertaking as regards foreign Characeae, and we 

 hoped to have followed it up with similar papers on the species 

 of other parts of the world. 



On the 2nd November, 1912, having just completed his fifty- 

 seventh year, my brother died, after a long and wearisome illness 

 borne with characteristic courage and patience. He was of 

 medium height and strongly built, and until recent years had 

 particularly good health. Our portrait is from a group taken by 

 the late Mr. J. Guardia, and enlarged and adapted for publication 

 by our friend Miss Charlton. 



At school Henry was fond of athletics, but, like many widows' 

 sons, as very young men we took life rather seriously and spared 

 little time for amusements. Later on my brother took to lawn 

 tennis, which, as well as Badminton, he played up to the com- 

 mencement of his last illness. He was always fond of rowing, 

 and it was partly owing to this that we were attracted to the 

 study of aquatic plants. 



In his earlier manhood my brother was a keen field botanist, 

 and knew a great many critical species. Of late years he used to 

 say he had forgotten all the British plants, but with a few minutes' 

 examination of a doubtful specimen his knowledge revived, and 

 his judgment was, I think, particularly sound. With the ticket- 

 ing of varieties which has so great an attraction for some botanists 

 he had no sympathy. If he knew a species and the directions in 

 which it varied he was quite satisfied. On the other hand, he was 

 much interested in discovering the causes which had brought 

 about any form or state, and was quick in detecting abnormality 

 in specimens sent for determination. As regards the work done 

 by our botanical "firm," he was always the predominant partner. 



Though my brother did not produce a large number of finished 

 drawings he was an excellent draughtsman, and was, I think, 

 particularly successful in "erecting" a dried specimen into the 

 semblance of life. His plates of Nitella Nordstedtiana and 

 N. hyalina in this Journal, and that of N. dictyosperma in the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society, are among the best representa- 

 tions of plants of this genus which have been produced. The 

 only non- botanical drawings of his which have been published 

 were the beautiful plate of Vertigo Moidinsiana in the Trans- 

 actions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, and the 

 representations of the genus Vertigo in Rimmer's book. 



Though by no means lacking in a sense of the beautiful, all 

 forms of beauty did not appeal to him. He always put truth 

 first, and a romantic poem or an imaginative painting had no 

 charm for him. He was not a great reader, especially latterly, 

 but had a particularly retentive memory for what he had read. 



In later life especially, my brother was essentially a man of 

 affairs, one whom it seemed natural to put on committees, to 

 appoint as a trustee, and for his relatives and friends to turn to 

 as a general counsellor. His knowledge of finance and property, 

 his shrewd common sense and insight into human nature, his 

 cool judgment and his ready sympathy eminently fitted him to 



