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may reflect that, as yet, no scientific analysis of spirit has been made. 

 This sensibility to the beauty of faith or feeling came to the surface 

 at times in a moistened eye or a phrase spoken with 'bated' breath, 

 and unexpectedly : who shall say that whatever arouses it has not 

 its source in a fact, for which science, on its present plane, has no 

 precise terms ? I would not wrong by a tittle so fine a character as 

 Hick's in the memories of those near, and while he lived, dear to 

 him ; but I would not have it understood that my summed-up 

 impression of him was aught other than one of Appreciation ; 

 and a Eecognition of the singular stability and depth of his con- 

 viction, often reiterated to those mentally sib, that Matter was All, 

 and all Matter, subject to partly unrevealed laws of Cosmical 

 Evolution ; and that Mind, Soul, Spirit — whichever we term it — 

 though possibly more than a mere property of matter known as 

 yet by certain relations to it, was equally an evolutionary essence, 

 probably subject to similar or parallel laws as yet incapable of 

 formulation by a faculty which has not yet attained the acme 

 of Possibilities. Hick had, years ago, more than a glimpse of that 

 'Natural Law' of ' sympathetic relationships ' in a ' Spiritual World' 

 which has in recent years found tentative expression in such 

 Physico-psychologic as that of Drummond and Joseph Morris. The 

 motto of Who would be wise and true to Nature, for maybe ages 

 yet, must be — Enquire, Observe, Ponder, re-enquire, re-observe, 

 re-study, marking off precisely and reverently the eminences we 

 each of us reach, suspending any 'final judgment' till in our turn 

 ajnid phires. What more can we do than honestly strive To Know, 

 or cease to be — the end of dormance of faculty — what we May Be, 

 with a fool's cry ' We are at the End ! ' Beautiful World ! beautiful 

 gift of Brain to comprehend it! are they not worth any effort, while 

 environment forbids not ? The spirit of Thomas Hick seems, as I 

 hold the pen, to inspire me to embody this, his life's creed, in words. 

 It should offend no one's susceptibilities, for it was in him, and for 

 all who live by it will be, manful, soulful, honest, and without fear. 



F. Arnold Lees. 



EUPHRASIA SALISBURGENSIS Funk., IN IRELAND. 



[The following interesting account of Euphrasia Salisburgensis 

 bears so intimately upon the contributions to its history which have 

 already appeared in this Journal that we have asked and obtained 

 permission from the Editors of the Irish Ndtiinilist to transfer it to our 

 pages. It appeared in the number for April last. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



In the Journal of Botany for November last attention was drawn 

 to the Irish forms of Euphrasia by the publication of an instructive 

 paper from the pen of Mr. F. Townsend, an acknowledged authority 

 on this difficult genus. In this paper E. Salishwifensis Funk., an 

 alpine or subalpine species of wide range on the European conti- 

 nent, is recorded as an addition to the Irish flora on the faith of 

 specimens gathered by the Rev. E. S. Marshall on the shores of 



