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zeal and willingness as wielder of the "pen of the ready 

 writer," and his wonderful memory for poetry, which 

 here had congenial exercise, appeared in the work com- 

 monly known as "Buxton's Guide." So much poetry 

 had Townley ready for introduction into it, that the 

 useful and accurate little volume in question might 

 easily have been swelled to double the size.* Townley 

 could recite passages from any part of Pope's Homer, 

 and such was his admiration of that poem, that he 

 repeatedly declared if he had his younger days before 

 him he would learn Greek in order to peruse it in the 

 original. 



It may be added, in reference to Crozier, who was a 

 well-built, portly man, quiet but merry, fond of a joke 

 and a good story, mild and gentle, yet thoroughly 

 independent, that his long and upright life, rejoiced by 

 hearty and abiding love of nature, and the respect of 

 every one who truly knew him, closed in 1847. He died 

 in Peel-street, Hulme, on Friday, the i6th of April, and 

 was interred at the Harpurhey Cemetery on the follow- 

 ing Tuesday. Never was there a better example of the 

 scientific man in humble life, or of the practical kind- 

 heartedness and generosity that spring from simple, 



* In indicating the share, unacknowledged and unrewarded, 

 which Townley had in the compilation of the "Guide," we merely 

 wish to give honour where honour is due, neither on the one hand 

 suppressing truth, nor on the other saying a word that shall look 

 like unfair disparagement. It is but just to the memory of a worthy 

 man, now no more, that the living should know what they owe to 

 him, 



