142 In Memoriam : R. H. Tiddeman, M.A., F.G.S. 



Thirty or thirty-five years ago he lived at Scarborough, 

 where he taught drawing and botany at some of the schools. 

 A correspondent who evidently knew Massee well, wrote to the 

 Yorkshire Post that ' Massee was a rare instance of an all-round 

 naturalist. He was not only an " inside " man, but an " out- 

 side " man as well. He was a skilled laboratory worker, but 

 not less he was a practical field botanist. There was no em- 

 piricism about him. He had nothing but scorn for 'would-be's ' 

 and people of little or no qualification who sought the lime- 

 light, but he was the essence of kindness to the real worker and 

 seeker after knowledge. Unconventional and unpretentious, 

 but intensely enthusiastic in his calling, he may be said to have 

 devoted his life to the interests of botanical science. He found 

 in life something he could do, and did it. His name is known 

 in the five Continents, and his work appreciated, and while his 

 death will be universally regretted, we who were privileged to 

 know him intimately, feel intensely poorer for his removal. He 

 leaves a widow and family to mourn his loss.' 



To these we offer sincere sympathy. This is extended to 

 our old friend, Mr. Alfred Clarke, of Huddersfield, and many 

 other Yorkshire mycologists, whose friendship with Mr. Massee 

 was very great indeed. 



To Miss Ivy Massee, who is well-known to Yorkshire 

 mycologists and inherits many of her father's gifts, we are 

 particularly indebted for the photograph reproduced herewith. 

 It is the last one taken of her father. — T.S. 



R. H. TIDDEMAN, M.A., F.G.S. 



(1842-1917). 



Yorkshire Geology has to mourn another of its workers ; 

 in February, R. H. Tiddeman, so well-known and beloved by 

 Yorkshire hammer-men, passed away. He was a quiet and 

 conscientious worker and made many firm friends in the 

 county in which he did so much good work. In appreciation 

 of his services, he was elected president of the Yorkshire 

 Geological Society in 1914, and during his period of office, he 

 made special efforts to be with his friends at meetings and 

 excursions ; albeit often at great personal inconvenience. 



Sir Roderick Murchison gave him the appointment as 

 Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey so long ago as 

 1864, and he remained in the service to until 1902, when he 

 retired. 



His principal work was in connection with the Carboniferous 

 Rocks of Yorkshire and the neighbouring counties of Cumber- 

 land and Lancashire, which occupied twenty years. Later, 



Naturalist, 



