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such as the autobiography of John Horsefield, who died 

 March 6th, 1854, and the obituary notice of Crowther, 

 which filled a column and a half of the Manchester 

 Guardian, of January i3th, 1847, a week after his 

 decease. Crowther was a Banksian, and one of the 

 most simple-hearted men that ever lived; willing to 

 travel any distance, and undergo any amount of fatigue, 

 so that he secured his flower. As one of his old com- 

 panions remarked to me some years ago, "he was not 

 learned ', but he was very loving" It is worthy also of 

 record that Crowther never touched his wages for pur- 

 poses of botanical pleasure, but took home every penny, 

 and trusted to fortunate accidents for the means of 

 supplying his scientific wants. Of the indefatigable and 

 acute George Caley, who was born at Craven in 1770, 

 and died May 23rd, 1829, there is a pleasing memoir in 

 the "Magazine of Natural History," vol. ii., p. 310; and 

 vol. iii., p. 226. A similar memoir of Edward Hobson, 

 I . who died September 7th, 1830, may be seen in the 

 "Transactions of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society," vol. vi., 1842. Buxton's is prefixed to 

 the "Guide," and several other memoirs have since been 

 given by Mr. Cash in his delightful little book, "When 

 there's a Will there's a Way." These appear to be the 

 whole of the memoirs of any length that have been 

 printed, though there have frequently been short notices 

 when death has carried off another of the band. It 

 would be well were they reprinted in a collective form. 

 Unmarked though they are by stirring incidents, the lives 



