HEWETT COTTRELL WATSON. 2638 
under this head is the result of his own field-work. For the last 
thirty years of ne life he travelled very little, and for many years 
before his death never spent a night away from his own house. 
Exchange Club a large supply of the rarer plants that came 
within the range of his daily excursions, selected and dried with 
characteristic care. His own British herbarium is a large one, 
and possesses a special relation to the ‘ Cybele,’ as he laid in the 
_specimens mainly to exhibit not so much the characters as the 
Geperaph in! range of the species. When ‘ Topographical Botany 
s finished, he entertained at one time the notion of making a 
Sir H ey oe Alphonse ean a downward, pro- 
tested energetically a t the aaghgesk out of the idea, and it 
was finally settled that on ae death it should * offered to Kew. 
His letters were always thought out carefully, and so full of matter 
so pithily expressed that, as one who is peculiarly well qualified to 
judge remarked at his funeral, a ictcat from them would be 
worth ppeneuas on literary grounds alone. 
xt to Botany, the subject that most engaged his attention 
was Phrenology. Whilst studying at Edinburgh he ma ade the 
acquaintance of George Combe (whose estimate of his agg 
and capabilities I have already sie), and, through him, of 
brother Andrew and Dr. Spurzheim This is not the place es 
attempt an appreciation of his work in this field, and I am not in 
the least qualified to deal with the subject. He always maintained 
that Phrenology rested on a sound scientific basis. His two 
oem dam works are ‘Statistics of lle et being o 
He edited the ‘ Phrenological J ournal’ tl 183 1840, cua 
wrote various articles in it at other aren His ata ‘i giving 
up the editorship, as stated in ‘Men o e Time,’ is so charac- 
teristic, that I cannot aan ae 
eventually withdrew psy it, on tee that grave o: fence 
given to more zealous advocates of that study, through his res 
freely pointing out the imperfect character Pe its evidences and 
definitions, and the nee ed of more exact inves ms.’ 
