io6 In Meynory of Charles P. Hobkirk. 



a third, the editorship of which was anonymous, but with which 

 we beheve our deceased friend had much to do. At all events 

 he was the author of various papers in it, including notes on 

 British Mosses, in which among others Tetraphis pellucida 

 {1864), Schistostega osmundacea (1864), Fissidens bryoides (1865), 

 Bartrmnia fontcma (1865), and Grimniia engyria (1866) were 

 treated of. He also wrote in 1866 on the Forms of Cratmgus 

 oxyacantha , on the occurrence in Britain of Rosa cnspidafa, and 

 gave an account of M. A. D^s^glise's Revision of the Section 

 TonientoscB of the genus Rosa. 



'The Naturalist' collapsed in 1867, but in 1875, after a gap 

 which was partially bridged over by a Wakefield published 

 magazine, 'The Yorkshire Naturalists' Recorder' of 1872, it was 

 again revived at the desire of the West Riding Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society and practically as the organ of that body, 

 and Mr. Hobkirk, in conjunction with his firm and life-long 

 friend, Mr. Geoge T. Porritt, F.L.S., became editor. This 

 joint-editorship lasted nine years, until 1884, when the editor- 

 ship passed into other hands, and the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union afterwards took up the financial responsibility. 



Coincidently with the editorship of this journal, Mr. Hob- 

 kirk was most active as a member of the Huddersfield 

 Naturalists' Society, of which we believe he was more than 

 once President (certainly in 1873), also as one of the leading 

 spirits of the old West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society, 

 at whose meetings he was a diligent attendant, and one of the 

 chief botanical referees, which task was often shared by the 

 Rev. William Fowler. More than once, we believe, Mr. 

 Hobkirk was President of the W.R.C.N.S. 



In the series of developments whereby the old West Riding 

 Society became transformed into what we know as the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, Mr. Hobkirk took an active and leading- 

 part. In fact, he was the first to §,0 of a quartette of members 

 who took part in what may be called a 'sub-committee meeting' 

 at which the reform of the old Society and the present con- 

 stitution of what soon became the 'Y.N.U.' was first put into 

 a definite form which was almost identical with the present 

 practice and procedure of the Union, everyone of its leading 

 features being definitely outlined at that meeting. 



In the proceedings of the Union Mr. Hobkirk was an indis- 

 pensable member — his geniality and urbanity, thorough grasp 

 of business, and full appreciation of every scientific aspect, con- 

 tributing no little to the scientific success which has always 



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