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52 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Szss. Laxrv. 
especially the Psalms, always a source of joy and comfort 
to him. Whilst a medical student at Glasgow, where he 
took the degree of M.D. in 1852, he was accustomed to go 
with Professor Arnott on botanical expeditions. After 
being house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, he 
was a general practitioner during the years 1852-1854 at 
Byers Green and Gainford, Durham, and from 1854 to 
1906 at Wolverhampton, where he held various medical 
appointments. 
“In 1863 he took part in founding the Dudley and South 
Staffordshire Field Club. At that time he was a busy 
doctor with only scanty leisure, but this he devoted mainly 
to botany and geology, and in his holidays he made 
excursions far and near to gather, as far as possible, a 
complete set of British flowering plants and mosses. His 
principal companions in these excursions were Mr Edwin 
Lees of Worcester, Mr. Joseph Thompson, Vicar of Cradley, 
Mr. Wm. Mathews, and Mr. James Bagnall of Birmingham. 
“He made a complete set of the British mosses given in 
Wilson’s ‘Bryologia Britannica, adding two new species 
—Amblystegium Confervoides, which he discovered in 
Dovedale in 1866, and Stereodon Bambergeri, which he 
discovered on Ben Lawers in 1867. 
“ His collection of flowering plants is very full, especially 
in the genera Rubus, Rosa, Hieracium, and Salix, to which 
he added the new species Salix Holosericea, Willd. 
“He also made a very fine collection of most of the 
typical British fossils, and was elected F.G.S. in 1892. He 
was a deeply religious man, always actively benevolent, 
and his ‘ Nil nisi Cruce’ was exemplified in every action 
of his long, well-spent life. JAB 
These statements, Ladies and Gentlemen, complete the 
information, so far as we have been able to gather it 
together, of those who have gone before. 
Before passing to the further business of this meet- 
ing, I wish to congratulate the Society on having had 
during the last year a series of fairly successful and in- 
teresting meetings, which I think over all have been well 
attended, and to express the hope that we are entering on 
a session which will even show an improvement on that 
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