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evening to Hendre Mynech on purpose to gather some for me. 
“A difficult fellow to dry nicely’ is his observation, on sending the 
fresh plants to London. 
On the 26th of the month he wrote :—‘I must write you one line 
before leaving Barmouth, which I do to-morrow.’ The observation 
about the to-morrow has a pathetic interest. The proposed journey 
was duly made to Whittington, the Bishop’s old: home. Mrs. How 
remained at Barmouth, apparently well. Next morning, Sunday, 
while celebrating early communion, the Bishop received a telegram 
Stainforth House, Upper Clapton, E., 
November 2nd, 1885. 
My dear Mr. Whitwell,—It was very kind of you to write to me, and I was 
very glad to hear of you again: joyce 
I am living close toa very first-rate botanist here—Mr, F. J. Hanbury—and 
T now and then go in and look over some of his plants, He has far the best 
herbarium I ever saw. I myself do very little in this line now-a-days, but a short 
Believe me, with many thanks, sincerely yours, 
The Skipton district must have been delightful botanising ground. 
In 1888, when the ‘Flora of West Yorkshire’ came out—proud 
of my own little share in such a work—I did myself the pleasure of 
asking Dr. How’s acceptance of a copy. He was then on the point 
of removal to his new sphere at Wakefield, and he wrote that I could 
not have given him a book which would have pleased him more. 
My own last direct news of Bishop How was in December 1899, 
when a Shropshire friend—also an old member of the Field Club— 
wrote :—‘I was staying not long ago with the Bishop of Wakefield, 
who keeps up his interest in natural history, especially botany. 
Yorkshire doesn’t seem a very good botanising county’ [Isn't it? 
et our Union testify.—W. W.] ‘but he showed me one very Tare 
Naturalist, 
