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engaging this man to be, for some weeks, his guide 

 through the district, and the man was able to show 

 Sir Edward where all the more important mosses 

 were to be seen growing. 



In quite a different social atmosphere, but still 

 during the period of which I am now speaking, 

 viz., during the " forties," one Mr. John Moore was 

 favourably known in Manchester circles, especially 

 as a representative of agriculture. He took also a 

 very active part in the management of the Philo- 

 sophical Society, but he was far from being an 

 intellectually strong man. 



Although Mr. Leo Grindon only arrived in Man- 

 chester about this time, he began and has continued 

 until now to devote much time to the conduct of 

 botanical societies. He has also written a long 

 series of works on botanical subjects. 



Speaking rather socially than scientifically, perhaps 

 the most conspicuous object of our literary and 

 philosophical gatherings was Peter Clare, one of 

 the secretaries of the Society. He was a genial and 

 somewhat fussy little Quaker, the constant friend and 

 ultimately the executor of Dalton. In a brief notice 

 of his life, read before the Society in 1852, its 

 author correctly said, "Mr. Clare was not a pro- 

 " found student, nor was he a frequent contributor 

 "to the publications of any of the literary or 

 " scientific institutions with which he stood con- 

 " nected," yet he was an active man and useful to 

 those institutions. 



