MR. EDWARD HOBSON. 307 
have collected materials for his work had he not 
possessed the greatest patience and perseverance 
in his laborious investigations.” 
Horsefield informs us that “ he could also 
number drawing amongst his various acquire- 
ments, and that he had a little book of Hobson’s 
in his possession, containing nearly two hundred 
coloured drawings, exhibiting the generic and 
specific character of mosses, on a magnified scale, 
copied from a work in the College Library, which 
place he frequently visited during his dinner 
hours.” 
Hobson endeared himself to his associates by 
his frankness and generosity, and all his friends 
agree that he was a most affectionate husband 
and father, and never suffered his fondness for 
science to interfere with the duty of providing 
for the daily wants of his large family. 
I have great pleasure in submitting similar and 
more lasting testimonials to his extraordinary 
acquirements, in the proofs Iam enabled to fur- 
nish of the estimation in which he was held by 
the most celebrated botanists of his day, and 
especially by the distinguished authors of the 
