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Clifton, where he remained for a few years enjoying the friendship 
of Thwaites, with whom he made botanical excursions. In 
November, 1848, he took up his abode at Elmhurst, near Bath, 
where he remained until his death, which took place in London on 
December 15th last. 
Such is a brief sketch of the events of the quiet life of one of 
the hardest workers in Botany of our time. The facts are obtained 
from an address to the members of the Bath Field Club by the Rev. 
Li. Blomefield, its President, in which the story of his life is told by 
one of his oldest friends, and that aspect of Broome’s work and 
character seen by a fellow-naturalist and neighbour is most 
excellently displa s botanical development seems to 
ave begun with his residence at affham Prior, in the heart of 
ood botanical region, where his tutor was fond of Natural 
then vicar of ext par e must have gone to Cambridge 
fully prepared for the stimulus which the teaching of Henslow 
could n to have imparted. Fortunate as he thus was 
his environment and its good influences on a y ung naturalist, 
€ can ye o manner of doubt that it w 
exclusively to his own power of s hard work that Broome rose 
Ss; and, 
is manuscript notes, and indexes to separate papers and their 
contents, from the most recent German paper on e morphology 
of Fungi downwards, one could not fail to see that his knowledge 
here was as thorough as his methods of systematic work. Broome’s 
own work speaks for him far more eloquently than the words of 
another ; but, beyond it, this other aspect of the man was known 
