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Years passed on, but Rogers never seemed to grow older, indeed, 

 he seemed gifted with perennial vivacity and youth, always on the alert 

 to study and determine a new shell, moss, or fern. 



Amongst other studies which he took up during the past few years 

 was thai of the Bryozoa, in which branch of science he found a fitting 

 coadjutor in Miss E. C. Jelly. Egyptology, likewise, when he was 

 over 70, much interested him, and he to some extent mastered the 

 intricacies of the study of hieroglyphics. 



But, perhaps, what he will be best remembered by is his connec- 

 tion with the " Ancoats Brotherhood," and the Art Museum, likewise 

 at Ancoats, of the committee of which Mr. George Milner is chairman, 

 and Mr. T. C. Horsfall, treasurer. He strove for years in the most 

 single-hearted way to interest those with but few opportunities of 

 enjoyment, in the love of nature, and artistic pleasures, and it was only 

 in Whit-week this last summer, that he, their chosen leader, escorted 

 over seventy members of the aforesaid Brotherhood to the Lake district, 

 amongst the projected trips being the ascent of Helvellyn. Thursday, 

 May 30th, proved fine, and in the best spirits he and they all started, 

 but, suddenly, when at about i,8oo feet elevation, he complained of not 

 feeling very well, and said he would sit down and rest by a large rock, 

 until his friends should have completed their ascent and have returned 

 his way. When they did so, it was to find their old friend was no 

 more. It seemed truly an euthanasia, thus ending his life peacefully 

 amongst scenes of mountain, lake, and valley he had always so much 

 loved. His vasculum, half filled with plants, was found by his side. 

 On June ist, in the presence of many friends, he was laid to rest in 

 the quiet churchyard at Patterdale. 



Faunistic Notes. — (i). During a holiday on the Iventish coast I iowxid Petri - 

 cola pholadiformis very common amongst the shells washed up at Shellness, near 

 Sandwich. (2). Tiirricola terrestris still flourishes in its unique British habitat near 

 Dover, and is I think slowly extending its ground. But attempts at colonization 

 in spots that seem exactly similar in conditions seem to have failed, whether made 

 by Capt. McDakin, its first discoverer, or by myself. It appeared hardly so plenti- 

 ful as in previous years. I hope the few who know its habitat have not told others 

 nor helped themselves too freely. (3). A relative in the South African War kindly 

 looked for land shells for me (not of the Lyddite species ! ), but all he sent home 

 were Helix aspersa and H. pisaiia, both mainly immature — the latter was almost 

 entirely of the var. lineolaia type. — [Rev.] J. W. Horsley. {Read before the 

 Society, Oct. 9, 1901). 



