208 FAIiMOUTH PACKET HEROES. 



2, Portman Square, whose daughter, Miss Anna Louisa Dixon, 

 at his decease in 1896, became possessed of it, and generously 

 presented it to the Nation. It is now, in the Painted Hall 

 collection, at Grreenwich Hospital. Further, it is satisfactory to 

 know that her aunt. Miss A. M. Dixon, has, since, presented to 

 the town of Falmouth through Mr. J. D. Enys, F.Q-.S.,t one of 

 the large Mezzotints. This valuable Engraving, suitably 

 framed, now appropriately adorns the Council Chamber of the 

 Falmouth New Municipal Buildings. 



tChairman of the Heroes' Memorial Committee, of which Major Christoe, Falmouth, is 

 Secretary. Many of the particulars relating to the Painting have come to us, through Mr. 

 Enys, from Dr. Guillimard, F.R.G.S., &c., and Miss A. M. Dixon. 



©tituarg, 1896. 



The late Mr. R. N. WORTH, of Plymouth. 



Throughout Devon and Cornwall there was not a better 

 known name than that of Mr. Eichard Nicholls Worth, F.G-.S., 

 whose death, at the age of 58 years, occurred on the 3rd of 

 July, 1896, at Shaugh, on the border of Dartmoor, where for a 

 short time he had been staying for the benefit of his health. 

 (His burial took place there on the 8th of his native month). 

 He was born at Devonport on the 19th of July, 1837. Originally 

 a Journalist, he afterwards became an Author and Editor. He 

 wrote and supervised numerous publications illustrative of the 

 Western Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. 

 His Histories of Plymouth, Devonport, and of Devon, as also 

 his writings on several topics (notably Sir Francis Drake's 

 connection with Plymouth) have become widely known, and from 

 their originality contain points of special interest. He contributed 

 papers on a variety of subjects to the Devonshire Association, 

 of which he became President, and to the Plymouth Institution 

 over which, likewise, he, for some time, presided, also to the 

 Geological and Polytechnic Societies of this County. He 

 moreover greatly exerted himself, as Curator, in arranging 

 exhibitions for the latter at Falmouth, and in improving the 

 fossil and other collections, in the Museum of the former, in the 



