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with which, during his long life, he had not made himself 
acquainted. All his walking and other tours were planned with 
the object of adding some fresh stores to his Natural history 
knowledge. Zoology, Ornithology, Flight of birds, Botany, 
Entomology, Meteorology, Geology and Archeology all came 
in for a share of attention. On one occasion we find him during 
one of these home walks and tours arranging with his usual 
orderly precision to be present at the morning services of six 
different Cathedrals on six successive Sundays. Architecture was 
a very favourite pursuit of his for some years. ‘“ Rickman’s 
Gothic Architecture ” seems to have been his chief guide, by the 
aid of which he made himself acquainted with, and carefully 
studied, every part of the magnificent Cathedral of Ely. Whatever 
he did was “thorough.” How few there are even of professed 
archeologists that could truthfully say this of any Church, 
Cathedral or Gothic building in their own vicinity, that they had 
studied every part of it. Why, only the other day, during a visit 
of the Field Club to that lovely Architectural gem (Wells 
Cathedral) several of the members who if not Archzologists are 
nothing else, thought the masterly exposition of the Dean of 
Wells not one short hour in length sufficient to make themselves 
acquainted with its Architectural structure. Such was not the 
example set them by their former President, whose one object in 
life was to get at the bottom of everything, not to content himself 
with a superficial knowledge of things but to investigate the 
““why ” and the “ wherefore” to arrive at the reason for this or 
that, throwing his whole mind upon the subject before him as if 
there was nothing else to attract attention, until he had mastered 
it. Golden words are those of his. 
“No literary work can attain to excellence if—whilst engaged 
upon it—the mind wanders away to other subjects it wants also 
to consider. The train of thought required in one case interferes 
with the train of thought required in any other. My belief is 
that no two good books—or even shorter treatises—can be 
