THE 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
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HENRY FLETCHER HANCE, 
(Win Portrarr). 
Henry Fie Hance was born on August 4th, 1827, in 
jiedaer Terrace, Old Brompten, London, ge spent much of 
his childhood in Devonshire. As regards this part of his life, I 
may quote his own words from a letter written “i me in 1882, when 
I was living at Devonport:—‘ The address of your letter has 
brought back to me the memory of many happy days. Being a 
very Miolieate child, and London air being unsuited to me, I passed 
infant, fee, blind and searred with w as received during a a long 
and very active service, and who refused knighthood from that 
headstrong, obstinate, and withal well-intentioned monarch, George 
III., was indebte e skill of an artillerist of the nascent 
republic for the loss of one of his calves, which was shot away at 
Bunker . Ato oe when I was a child, I was sent 
with a os st loving 2 se to Toate a farmhouse at Lipson, where 
T used to get up at daybreak and ink fresh milk from the cow. 
I can sell see in memory the little diamond-latticed panes of my 
bedroo 
<a ears to have been educated partly in London and partly 
on the Continent, but I have no definite information on this point. 
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* did not — ect his favourite pursuit. In his 
ee on (Journ. Bot., 1867, p- 13), he says 
eget age cg th matters unconnected with Botany . 
t, alth “cc : 
in the wate June, ee eat exe on a heath near Newton Abbot, an 
Erica which I determined at the time 
Journaz or Borany.— VoL. 25. ‘[Jax., 1887.] ee 
