CXXIV. THE LATE REGINALD ROSWORTH SMITH, M.A. 



the deep feeling of sorrow with which it has learned of the death 

 of your beloved husband who has laboured so much and so 

 successfully in the cause of the religion they profess. May God 

 accept him and cool his resting place ! They had hoped that 

 such a worker as your husband would have lived almost for ever 

 in this world, but it has not so pleased God, and He has taken 

 him just as he was entering old age." 



Again, from a distinguished Christian negro gentleman, Dr. 

 Blyden : 



" A void has been left in the ranks of lovers of humanity that 

 will not be filled in this generation." 



His great ability both as a speaker and a writer, which gave 

 such force and lucidity, such charm and persuasiveness to all he 

 wrote or said, so that he always, as it has been truly said, rivetted 

 the attention of his hearers, might conceivably have excited 

 admiration without awakening any deeper emotions. But there 

 was something winning in the very sight of his loveable face. 

 And a closer acquaintance with him deepened this impression. 

 The secret was, as many have pointed out, that with all his 

 intellectual power he combined the simple heart of a child. 



On several occasions he read papers on birds to the members 

 of the Dorset Field Club, as e.g., last spring a paper on the 

 " Cornish Chough and the Magpie." These papers, so charm- 

 ingly written, and so full of accurate and sympathetic observation, 

 of racy and humorous stories, and of apt quotations, reveal the 

 student but without a trace of the pedant. 



The loss of such an enthusiast for the study of natural history 

 leaves a sad blank in the ranks of our members, but it is to be 

 hoped that others have caught something of that enthusiasm, 

 and that these will continue to uphold the worthy traditions 

 handed down to them by such ardent lovers of Nature as he in 

 whose memory these lines are written. 



J. H. Wilkinson. 



