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Considering his forty-one years of unbroken ser- 

 vice for Owens College, he thought himself entitled 

 to a pension and asked for one. The Council 

 refused, because of their fear of creating a precedent. 

 This refusal took away a long-indulged anticipation 

 of spending his last winters in the South of Europe, 

 but his private purse enabled us to live quietly in a 

 London suburb. 



He always appeared to, and I think he honestly 

 did, enjoy the change. Many of his oldest and 

 nearly all his scientific friends were already in 

 London. He had the pleasure of regularly attend- 

 ing meetings of the Royal Society, and he was 

 pleased with the enthusiastic reception accorded 

 him by the several Natural Science Societies of the 

 metropolis. Though, after leaving the North, he 

 never touched pencil, for either landscape or scien- 

 tific drawing, he continued to employ himself in 

 investigations of carboniferous flora. 



His great wish had been to find some young, 

 eager botanist who would take up and continue this 

 work. He succeeded in persuading Dr. Dukenfield 

 Scott, F.R.S., honorary keeper of the Joddrell 

 laboratories at Kew, to take an interest in it. 



To Dr. Scott's intellectual enthusiasm for the 

 subject, to his tactful veneration for its exponent, and 

 to his unfailing kindness, my husband owed much of 

 the enjoyment of his last years. 



The distinctly marked downward steps had in each 

 case been an attack of unconsciousness. Toward 



