298 In Memoriam: James Needham. 
supplied a lengthy list of plants for a local guide to the Hebden 
Bridge district. 
He was made a life member of the Hebden Bridge Literary 
and Scientific Society, and the Halifax Scientific Society. 
Many times Mr. Needham has entertained and instructed the 
members of both societies.* 
In recent years he has often spent weekends at Stanbury 
on the invitation of Jonas Broadley, the versatile school- 
master, one of the first in this country in training school 
children in the outdoor study of nature. On these visits 
Needham has occasionally entertained the school children with 
his homely talks on toadstools and other works of nature. 
Needham related some amusing stories concerning the 
remarks natives had made when he was collecting. One 
old farmer in whose pasture he was searching for Clavaria 
rosea, says:—‘‘ W’at, are ta on wi’ that babby-wark yet? 
We hav’nt seen that pink thing tha’rt seekin’ this year soa far.’ 
On another occasion when searching for micro-fungi one friendly 
native asked another :—‘ W’ats Jimmy rooitin’ for; has he 
lost sommat ? Nay (was the reply) he’s nobbut seekin’ fun- 
gusses ’at he will’nt kno’ he’s fun, wol he gets a magnifying 
glass to see ’em wi’ !’ He was always treated by the Hebden 
Bridge people, high and low, with the greatest respect. 
His last visitors were four bryologists, including Mr. D. A. 
Jones, Harlech, Wales, and Mr. Broome, Manchester, in quest 
of certain hepatics, September, 1912. Mr. Needham conducted 
them to a place where he knew two of them were to be found 
along with many others he had not investigated. They gather- 
ed freely, and in December sent him the results of their 
examination which pleased him very much, for about half-a- 
dozen were additions to our flora. 
Mr. Needham was a convincing type of what an untrained 
hard working man may achieve in the study of nature by per- 
severance and close application. 
He was interred at Birchcliffe Baptist Church, on Thursday, 
July 17th, 1913.—CHAs. CROSSLAND. 
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Besides the Secretary’s Reports, Lists of Officers, etc., the Proceedings 
or the Cleveland Naturalists’ Field Club, 1910-1911, edited by the Rev. 
J. C. Fowler, and just published, contain illustrated obituary notices of 
the late T. M. Fallow and Henry Simpson; notes on local ecclesiastical 
antiquities by the late T. M. Fallow, the Rev. C. V. Collier and Mr. P. 
Huntington ; borings in Kildale Carrs by the late Rev. J. Hawell; Cleve- 
land Lichens by Mr. F. Elgee ; Cleveland Lepidoptera, by Mr. T. A. Loft- 
house, and Cleveland Coleoptera, by Mr. M. L. Thompson. This part 
commences a new volume, and is an improvement upon its predecessors. 
It would be an advantage if the Proceedings had been lettered on the back. 
* He was on the Halifax syllabus for a talk on Hepatics, Sept. 8th next. 
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