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numerous to set out in a brief obituary notice. Allen was a very 
busy man and his engagements prevented him from attending 
many of the annual forays of our Society, and although on 
several occasions he was approached with a view to allowing his 
name to be proposed for the position of President of this Society 
we shall now deplore the fact that such an eminent mycologist 
was never elected to that position. He passed quietly away on 
the 20th of November, 1922, at the early age of forty-seven and 
was laid to rest in the pretty churchyard at Benthall three 
days afterwards, when it was my privilege to attend his funeral 
and pay my last tribute of respect and affection on behalf of 
the British Mycological Society and myself. All our members 
will deplore the loss to science and our society in particular by 
the death of such an able and distinguished mycologist and 
tender their heartfelt sympathy to his sorrowing widow. 
