$n Memoriam. 
HENRY THOMAS SOPPITT. 
ON the first day of April, while the singing birds cheered us 
and the bursting buds gladdened our eyes, proclaiming present 
spring, there passed from us one to whom all the sights and 
sounds of Nature were dear and familiar—one who was (alas, 
alas, that the tense must be a past one!) himself familiar and 
ear to many of the naturalist brotherhood in Yorkshire and 
elsewhere. 
Henry Thomas Soppitt died on that day at Halifax in his 
4Ist year, and his too early death is mourned not by personal 
friends only, for his labours had made him widely known among 
mycological botanists everywhere, and there are probably few 
May 1899. 1899. 
