THE LATE REV. W. R. LINTON 67 
country on foot, a novel mode of poem at that time for 
European visitors. The cli mate made great: difficulties for pe 
trians, the heat at times — haart ene changing rapidly 
to chilling storms and heavy rains (which sometimes flooded their 
tent), making the country aay travelling, and the swollen un- 
bridged torrents impassable for the time on foot. The pluck and 
endurance of the travellers overcame all trials. Having visited 
the snowy peak of Mt. Hermon, sy crossed the ranges of Lebanon. 
All their journeys, and what t observed, were graphically re- 
corded in full diary letters by Linton to his father, which abound 
in interesting references and identifications, in remarks on —- 
history and humorous incidents. No one could have been mu 
better prepared to appreciate the topography of the Holy aid 
new its history critically ; had got up a fair amount : Arabic, 
enough to understand the Arabs they met with; was a keen ob- 
server, a listener and a thinker rather than a talker, as these 
graphic diaries show. He took sketches to illustrate future 
lectures ; shot a few birds, gathered a few land-shells, and collected 
a large number of specimens of plants to work out at home. The 
gathering of herbs struck the fancy of the Arabs, who named him 
the ‘Father of er ees ages,’ as they named his companion the 
“Father of Legs”! 
In 1882 Linton bade farewell to the Swiss mountains, and 
British botany drew him to me ot gates ay wi most of the 
summers of the next fifteen In company with his brother 
forward, and in the collection of meen plants generally. Braemar 
and Glen Shee, Clova and Killin were frequently made their 
headquarters, and the Moffat Hills, grat and the far north of 
cotland were visited more than once. From this time onward 
rapidly when the “ Linneza” was formed and he 
Director for Britain. His botanical woliodtiie are being presented 
by his widow to the Liverpool Universit 
In 1885 Ireland was visited for the sake of seeing and getting 
some of the endemic species, most of which were found, including 
the rare Inula salicina L. (Journ. Bot. 1886, p.18). One more visit 
to oe was made in 1895, when the a was spent with the 
late H. C. Levinge, at Knock Drin Castle, in the study of Rudi, 
Characea, &e. 
he year 1886 was an eventful one in Linton’s life. He became 
cneneee in October to Miss Alice Shirley, eldest daughter of the 
late Professor Walter Waddington Shirley, of Oxford, to whom he 
was oe at Oxford in the following January. He Bend his 
his 
Holloway, in ‘the late autumn of the same year; and ving 
accepted the Vicarage of ‘Shirley, near near Ashbourne, he made it his 
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