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his early days, and rely on his conclusions with as much 

 certainty as if they had been made on the previous day. 

 All his work was well and thoroughly done. At the same 

 time he worked quickly. He was also very systematic in 

 the time for working. Por many years all his writing was 

 done with black lead pencil, reclining on a couch with 

 the paper on a board. Dr. Spruce had considerable 

 aptitude for learning languages. He spoke and wrote 

 French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He was widely read 

 in general literature, and a copy of Shakespeare's Works 

 was one of his companions in crossing the Continent of 

 South America. He was always courteous and gentlemanly 

 in his bearing, and ever affectionate, kind, and sympathising 

 as a friend. He had a considerable vein of humour in his 

 nature, and could relish and tell an amusing story or make 

 a good pun. As an hepaticologist he might justl}' be 

 placed in the foremost rank, and this being the case he 

 was in communication, previous to his death, with nearly 

 every hepaticologist of note in the world. He understood 

 the theory of music, and was naturally very musical, 

 possessing a true ear and a good voice. 



He was never married ; he died from an attack of 

 influenza, which his already weakened body could not 

 overcome. He was interred on the last day of the year 

 1893 at Terrington, beside his father and mother, in 

 accordance with directions given several years before his 

 death to Mr. M. B. Slater, of Malton, his sole executor. 



LIST OF PAPERS, ETC., BY DR. RICHARD SPRUCE. 



1. A List of Mosses and Hepaticse collected in Eskdale, Yorkshire. — 



Phytologist, i., .540-544 (1844). 



2. On the Branch-bearing Leaves of Jungermannia juniperina, Sw. — 



Phytologist, ii., 85, 86 (1845). 



3. A List of Musci and Hepaticse of Yorkshire. — Phytologist ii.. 



147-157 (1845). 



4. The Musci and Hepaticse of Teesdale. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., ii., 



65-89 (1846). 



5. The Musci and Hepaticse of the Pyrenees. — Annals and Magazine of 



Xat. History, 2nd series, iii., "81-106, 269-293. 358-380, 478- 

 503; iv., 104-120, t. i.-iii. (1849). Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 

 103-216, t. i., ii., xiv. (1850). 



6. On Anomoclada, a new Genus of Hepaticse, and its allies. Odonto- 



schisma and Adelanthus. — Jour, of Bot.. six., 33-40 (1881). 



