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Sir Henry was a keen naturalist and was interested in all 

 kinds of outdoor life, but — though his great-uncle Sir Joseph 

 Henry Hawley was the "lucky baronet" so famous on the turf, 

 having won the Derby no less than three times — horse-racing 

 had no attraction for him. He was more proud of his relation- 

 ship to Sir Joseph Banks, whose aunt had married Dr James 

 Hawley, F.R.S., the father of the first baronet. He was a 

 thoroughly capable botanist and horticulturist and was well 

 versed in arboriculture. His chief interest was, however, myco- 

 logy, and in this he became thoroughly efficient and gained 

 considerable reputation as an authority on Pyrenomycetes. He 

 was a most careful worker and had the invariable practice of 

 jotting down all his observations on paper. He seems to have 

 begun to specialise on Fungi owing to meeting with Charles 

 Crossland. A foray of the Lincolnshire Naturahsts' Union took 

 place at Lincoln on Oct. 3rd, 1905, and Crossland acted as 

 leader: "Mr Hawley helped Mr Crossland in a most enthusiastic 

 manner, and will accept the position of recorder for the Union." 

 In a letter on Oct. 7th Crossland writes: " Many thanks for your 

 kind sentiments in regard to the Lincoln Foray. It was one of 

 the pleasantest surprises I have experienced for some time to 

 meet with someone in your county who takes so great an interest 

 in this much neglected, but very important, branch of botany. 

 The interest in the study will grow upon you as it has done upon 

 me." After discussing certain of the species they had found, he 

 goes on to say: "We have no need to feel uneasy at not being 

 able to determine all the agarics we meet with, either at sight, 

 or from books at our disposal. I have been with Dr Cooke, 

 W. G. Smith, Massee and others who, though the first two have 

 had 50 years' experience, have been occasionally at a loss to say 

 definitely what certain species were." Crossland advised him as 

 to his early finds and suggested his entering into correspondence 

 with specialists in various groups, and judging from the few 

 letters he retained, the specimens he sent were almost invariably 

 of more than passing interest. Owing to Crossland's special 

 knowledge of the group, special attention was naturally paid to 

 Discomycetes, and Boudier gave his opinion on many of the 

 difficult species. Pyrenomycetes began to be studied about 1908, 

 for Crossland writes in June of that year "Re the Sphaeria. We 

 shall get rather more familiar with the 'enemy' in a bit and 

 rather welcome their appearance." The following year he wrote: 

 "Massee told me you had been at Kent. Also that it was pos- 

 sible you might spend a bit more time there later on and work 

 at the Pyrenos — or some group of these. I wish you would : there 

 is a very good opening in that direction. Very few, if any hving 

 Englishman besides Cooke, Plowright and Massee know any- 



