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Mountains, Ireland, collected in 1868; from Levers Water, 

 Coniston Old Man, collected in 1856 ; and from a stream, near 

 Half-Moon Bay, near Carrick-a-Rede, Antrim, July, 1861." 



Mr. Brogden was not the kind of man who makes history ; 

 retiring and unobtrusive he filled his life with all sorts of hobbies, 

 scientific and other, which made him with his varied knowledge 

 and experiences a valued friend to those who had the pleasure 

 of his acquaintance. F. N. 



Robert Cotton was a promising member of the Society 

 whose untimely death was deeply deplored by all who knew him. 

 He entered the University of Manchester in 1902 and graduated 

 with Honours in Engineering in 1905. After three years in 

 practice as a civil engineer he returned to the University as 

 Demonstrator in the Engineering Department, receiving at the 

 same time the degree of Master of Science. On the University 

 Staff he served for four years, and was then awarded the Vulcan 

 Fellowship for Research, wliich work he was about to take up 

 when his career was so suddenly closed. 



In the University, Mr. Cotton was regarded with esteem 

 and affection by Staff and Students alike. Engaging and 

 courteous in manner, vivacious to a degree, his presence was 

 always welcome and desired. He entered with unusual fulness 

 into the social life of the institution, being for many years a 

 moving spirit in the Engineering Society and Geologists' Asso- 

 ciation. The Officers' Training Corps, in which he became a 

 lieutenant, was no less indebted to him. His buoyancy of 

 character might have misled those whose ac(}uaintance was brief 

 to underestimate his true intellectual worth; those who knew 

 him better were well aware of his true keenness as a student, 

 both in his own field of Engineering and also in Geology, which 

 was his hobby. Though his brief membership of this Society 

 doubtless prevented many of his fellow-members from dis- 

 covering his value, all will appreciate the real loss which they 

 sustained by his death, on April nth, 1913, at the early age 

 of twenty-seven. (j. H. 



