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IN MEMORY OF HEWETT COTTRELL WATSON. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
ave this month to mourn the loss of our veteran English 
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botanical geographer, Hewerr Corrrent Watson, who died at his 
residence at Thames Ditton, near Kingston, on Wednesday, the 
Christ h n accident whilst working in his garden; he 
stepped backward against a heap of soil and rubbish whi i 
not notice, and d his foot and leg, which was lame before 
been confined to his bedroom ever since Christmas; and, although 
until the last fortnight he had been able to dress and lie on the 
sofa during the day, at times he suffered great pain, and his 
strength became gradually exhausted. 
He was born in the month of May, 1804, at Firbeck, a village 
on the Yorkshire side of the boundary between that county and 
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magistrate for the counties both of Cheshire and Lancashire. On 
his mother’s side he was descended from the Lords Folliott, of 
position, he was from a very early pert é 
promising democrat, not merely passively and theoretically, but 
ly active interest in poli rey, 
The society in which he moved was principally com f men 
of very different opinions; and, as he delighted to speak out his 
mind freely, he was constantly drawn into animat 
social and political questions, in which, \ 
great command of illustrative recollections and anecdotes, no one 
was better qualified to hold his own against ali comers. 
When he was a child, Dr. Stanley, afterwards Bishop of 
Norwich, was the rector of the neighbouring parish of Alderley, 
and Mr. Watson always considered that it was from him that his 
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