MEMOIR 



CHARLES JOHN CORNISH 

 Born September 28, 1858. Died January 30, 1906 



" It is not growing like a tree 



In bulk doth make man better be : 

 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, 

 To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : 



In just proportions we just beauties see ; 

 And in short measures life may perfect be." 



BEN JONSON. 



CHARLES JOHN CORNISH was born on September 28, 

 1858, at Salcombe House, Salcombe Regis, Devon, 

 the home of his grandfather, then Deputy-Lieutenant 

 of the county. He was sprung from a family long 

 connected with Devonshire and Cornwall, and his 

 literary tastes and love of natural history were 

 hereditary. 



Several of his forebears attained distinction as 

 scholars, or held exhibitions and scholarships at 

 Oxford on the Rous and Wadham foundations by 

 their " right of founder's kin " ; while his great- 

 grandfather, Mr. James Cornish of Totnes and Black- 

 hall, wrote a book on the culture and preservation 

 of salmon and other fish in the Devonshire rivers, 



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