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observed in Bath and compared with that of Greenwich and some 
other places. 1869. 
6. St. Swithin and other weather Saints, 1870. 
7. Results of Meteorological Observations made at the Institution 
during ten years (March, 1865 to February, 1875). 
8. Gales of Wind. (1877.) 
9. The Bournemouth Firs, &c. ; was there ever a forest of Firs on 
the Hills around Bath? (1886.) 
Io. Continuation of (No. 7) the two together giving results of 
Meteorological Observations for 20 consecutive years without break. 
1r. Remarks on the Distribution and Movements of British 
Animals and Plants in past and present times, as instanced in the 
nightingale and some other cases. 
This was the last scientific contribution made to the Club and 
shows no indication of failing mental powers. He writes in 
“ra qept evavtov,” under date 1891. 
“My health was fairly good during the rest of the year—even 
allowing me to read ove more paper (I may now say, certainly the last) 
to the Bath Natural History Field Club. This was on the 11th 
November. 
Perhaps I am the only scientific man in England who ever gave 
Lectures in his ninety-second year.” 
It was during one of these visits, I think, that he showed me 
the Lord’s Prayer written on a piece of paper the size of a 
sixpence. This he told me was done by himself after his eightieth 
year, without glasses. It was one of the many striking character- 
istics of the man that his sight was so well preserved to the last, 
notwithstanding the necessary use of high-power lenses in his 
zoological and botanical researches. But then he had the moral 
courage to know when to stop and cease from overstraining his. 
eyesight. I remember when he addressed the Field Club in 
December, 1886, on the death of his friend and old companion 
C. E. Broome, how he attributed the waning of the latter’s strength 
to overwork, fatigue of mind and body, and then said, “ Work to the 
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