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Sn Memoriam. 
JAMES NEEDHAM (1849—10913). 
Mr. JAMES NEEDHAM, a noted all-round botanist of Hebden . 
Bridge, passed away on Monday, July 14th. He had been 
confined to his room five or six weeks. An attack of influenza 
about Christmas left him with general debility affecting his 
lungs and very much reducing his strength. He came round 
sufficiently to go out of doors, but never regained his usual 
health. Almost to the last he spoke in a hopeful vein of being 
James Needham. 
able to get about again ; a day or two before the end came he 
sent his son-in-law into Crimsworth Dean to find one of his 
favourite orchids. Mr. Needham was born at Hebden Bridge 
in March, 1849. By trade he was an iron moulder which he 
followed to about five years ago when he became incapacitated 
from doing heavy work. 
¥ Along with a friend, the subject of our notice took up the 
study of flowering plants and ferns in 1885 as a result of a 
ramble to Hardcastle Crags under the auspices of the Hebden 
Bridge Co-operative Society, headed by a Rochdale naturalist. 
Their books were ‘ Withering’s Botany,’ from the library of 
Naturalist, 
