1854] Regret for Tourist Rapacity. 63 



taste for botany will hunt out, carry off, and ruthlessly ex- 

 terminate the poor ferns which are unfortunate enough to 

 be notable rarities." 



A smart fall of snow had been among the incidents of 

 this excursion, and for the remainder of the time spent at 

 Carnarvon, Snowdon was generally robed in white. The 

 last expedition taken before leaving Wales was a ride 

 (November 14) "to Landcorog, to say good-bye to Mr. 

 Williams, who has acted towards us in a most friendly 

 manner all the time we have remained at Carnarvon." 



Seven years later poor Wm. Williams, a mountaineer 

 to the last, met his death by falling from Clogwyn y 

 Garnedd, almost the last remaining fastness of Woodsia 

 hyperborea.* 



A week (November i5th-22nd) was spent at Chester, 

 and then a fortnight in London. In London he notes 

 making acquaintance with Mr. Thomas Boyd, afterwards 

 his colleague in writing an article on the distribution of 

 butterflies, who " presented me with a large number of 

 Lepidoptera in the most liberal manner." After a whole 

 year thus spent in wandering, the family about the begin- 

 ning of December returned to the Isle of Wight, where for 

 the next six months they resided at Ryde. 



* An interesting obituary notice of Wm. Williams appeared in the "Phyto- 

 logist >' for October, 1861 (p. 307). 



