66 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
good part of the summer holidays for ia years from 
1874 was taken up with expeditions to the Swiss Alps, for moun- 
taineering rather than botanizing, in company usually with the 
Rey. A. G. Girdlestone, author of a very entertaining book, The 
High Alps without Guides. A ue ie fone were snatched by 
the way, but the companionship was more productive of ascents 
of peaks and passes and humorous episstied than of natural history 
. Lint 
the whole time, and giving his ‘soetabi for the Sundays to three 
successive vicars. Part of a letter from the Rev. F. Glanvill, 
Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Bristol, speaks of his work and his influ- 
ence at the College :—‘“I had the privilege of being a pupil of the 
late Rev. W. R. Linton from April, 1877, to Easter, 1880, and 
were parroat and truly models of ee His interpretations 
were always the common-sense s. He was strongly opposed 
to veaaiig into a text anything that could not fairly and squarely 
be deduced from it. At the weekly delivery by a senior man of a 
lecture or sermon in Hall, his criticisms were just but never un- 
kind; with perfect frankness he would indicate a weak point in 
a argument, and in private afterwards he would help a man to 
reconstruct i Unusually reserved in manner, he would go 
through a ae or football match and hardly utter a word rate 
than was necessary, and yet no one was keener on the game.” 
Mr. Glanvill goes on to speak of the real deep sympathy ond 
readiness to help that came out in private conference, and s 
that as time went on “his popularity with the students wal 
tae 
Tt was during the ten years at the College that W. R. Linton 
took to by seni in earnest. His duties were so arranged that he 
easily peer gor from town were explored in f ring 
the foundations of a large British herbari re 
laid He joined the Botanical Exchange — (Distributor — 
Edit eport, , 1899, and 1 s one 0 
ditor o 1 
original members of the Locality Record Club. The love of field 
botany grew upon him and gradually undermined his affection for 
mountaineering. 
break for one term in the routine of his life in Islington 
occurred in 1881. Late te in January he and the Rev. A. G. Girdle- 
stone started for Palestine, with the intention of exploring the 
