82 OBITUARY, 
pondence with many contemporary British botanists; and he 
enjoyed the friendship of Mr. Mitten, Mr. West of Bradford, and 
the late Mr. G. Davies, with whose work he was in fullest 
sympathy, and of whom he gave some account in this Journal for 
1892 (p. 288). His friendship for Mr. Davies was in fact no 
ordinary one, and the death of this enthusiastic fellow-worker 
made a very visible impression on him. Mr. Smith belonged to 
the class of naturalists who are so averse from publication that it 
comes a matter of research to their brethren to discover their 
and painstaking work of this botanist. He devoted all his spare 
years made annual excursions to the Highlands of Scotland in 
search of novelties. His death, after ten months of illness, from 
cancer in the stomach, occurred at Hassocks, on the 15th 
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