MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. XXI 



hours of his time to instructing and entertaining him, thank 

 him on parting for the visit, in a way to which it was very 

 difficult on the spur of the moment to make any suitable 

 response, because it was so unexpected. The encouragement 

 and help which he gave to many young beginners in Botany is 

 remembered by them with feelings of gratitude and affection. 

 On this point I can myself insist with emphasis, for when I left 

 school and became immersed in business engagements, and was 

 surrounded by friends and relations who knew and cared nothing 

 about Botany, I should probably have drifted away from it 

 altogether if I had not made his acquaintance. In answering 

 letters, in helping his correspondents to name critical plants and 

 fill up gaps in their herbaria, in referring back to his notes and 

 catalogues (as he was asked to do so often in his latter years), to 

 explain the details on the faith of which he had stated some 

 record in general terms, his patience and assiduity were un- 

 bounded, and no one but those who lived with him knew what a 

 large proportion of his time was often occupied in this way. In 

 helping by money to the full extent of his pecuniary means, and 

 by judicious counsel, such of his friends and acquaintance as 

 fell into illness and misfortune, his liberality was very great. 

 Such traits as these can, from the nature of the case, live only 

 in the memory of one here and another there who knew him by 

 personal contact. 



His funeral took place at the rustic church of the village with 

 which he has been so long identified, on the afternoon of Wed- 

 nesday, August 3rd. The closed shutters of the village shops 

 testified to the respect in which he was held by neighbours, and, 

 in addition to his relatives, the following botanists resident in 

 London and the neighbourhood were present: Sir J. D. 

 Hooker, the Hon. J. L. Warren, the Rev. W. W. Newbould, 

 Prof. Lawson, Messrs. Baker, Blow, Boulger, Britten, Dyer, 



H. Groves, and B. D. Jackson. 



J. G. BAKEE. 



