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him to a foremost position among botanists and brought him 

 acknowledgment from all learned Societies and Universities. 



He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888 and 

 received a Royal Medal in 1893, and in 1902 he received the 

 degree of D.Sc. honoris causa from the University of Man- 

 chester and was elected honorary member of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society in 1894. 



Those who knew him as a friend mourn in his death a 

 genial companion, a man of varied interests but one who above 

 all else was dominated by a whole-hearted devotion to his 

 science. F. E. W. 



Charles Sneath Allott was born at Lincoln, on May 

 17th, 1842, and there he received his early education. He 

 was the son of the late Joseph Allott, maltster, of Lincoln 

 and Newark-upon-Trent. 



After being articled to Mr. L. H. Moorsom, M.Inst.C.E., 

 he joined the Fairbairn Engineering Company in 1862, and 

 remained with the firm till 1875, when he occupied the position 

 of assistant manager. During this period he had charge of 

 many important engineering works, including the roofs of the 

 Albert Hall and of the Liverpool Street Station, London, the 

 framework of the Spithead Ports and the Bridges of the Inter- 

 Colonial Railway, Canada. In 1875 he commenced practice 

 on his own account in Manchester, and was employed by 

 different Railway Companies in the construction and repair of 

 their iron bridges. He also designed large cotton mills for 

 Brazil and China, and was responsible for the whole of the 

 buildings of the new Electricity Generating Station of the Man- 

 chester Corporation in Stuart Street. 



Mr. Allott was well known in masonic circles and was a 

 past provincial officer of Freemasons and also of Royal Arch 

 Masons in East Lancashire. At the time of his death he was 

 Captain of the Manchester Golf Club, in the affairs of which he 

 took the keenest interest for many years. Much of his time 



