IN MEMORIAM : WILLIAM CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON, LL.D., F.R.S. 33 



In 1892, another paper appeared written jointly with Sir Wm. 

 Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., on € Sigillaria and Stigmaria,' and one by 

 himself ' On the Genus Spl^nopt^^m.' 



For many years our friend was the honoured President of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and it was fitting 

 that one of his last papers should be written for them, entitled, 

 'On the light thrown upon the question of the Growth and Develop- 

 ment of the Carboniferous Arborescent Lepidodendron by a study 

 of the details of their organisation.' 



Probably the last memoir he wrote was a biographical sketch of 

 his old and valued friend and contemporary co-worker in paleo- 

 botany, the Marquis de Saporta — a pathetic finish to a noble life ! 



His relation to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was both pleasant 

 and profitable. His attitude is rightly defined by Mrs. Williamson, 

 who writes us : ■ He loved the Society intensely/ 



This is neither the time nor place to estimate the full value of 

 Professor Williamson's scientific work, nor does the writer feel himself 

 competent for such a task ; but, at least, he was the great pioneer 

 who placed paleobotany on a new and sound basis. A valuable 

 critical estimate of his life's work may be found in Graf Solms 

 Laubach's able notice in ■ Nature ' of 5th September, 1895. 



The visitor to the large geological room at the Owens College 

 Museum may see a mighty specimen of the root or rhizome of 

 Lepidodendron, moved to its present position, with great enthusiasm 

 and carefulness by Dr. Williamson, from the quarry at Clayton, near 

 Bradford, where it was found. It has been suggested that it forms 

 a magnificent monument to the subject of this memoir — for, like it> 

 Professor Williamson 



Dying left behind him 

 Footprints on the sands of time. 



William Cash. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Beginning with the number for January this year, 'Lincolnshire Notes and 

 Queries/ which is quarterly, and in its typographical aspect reflects great credit 

 on the Horncastle press, now includes a Natural History Section separately paged 

 and under the editorship of the Rev, E. Adrian Wood ruffe -Peacock. The editors 

 of the Antiquarian Section are the Rev. J. Clare Hudson, M.A., and Mr. E. 

 Mansel Sympson. MA., M.D. 



From Messrs. Swann & Co. we have received ■ The International Naturalist 

 Directory' for 1896. It is a little pamphlet of 42 pages, and, as might be expected 

 from the smailness of its size, it is by no means a complete work. The number of 

 societies given numbers no more than 35 for the whole world, whereas, in fact, 

 a single English county actually possesses a greater number. The lists of 

 individuals whose names are included are similarly incomplete, some of the 

 inclusions, as well as of the non-inclusions, being unexpected. 



Feb. 1896. c 



