70 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
an inn in West Yorkshire at which we stayed for six days. The 
food was coarse and the cooking coarser; William Linton plodded 
through it without a word of complaint till we left for more com- 
fortable quarters. Then he said, ‘I could not have: stood that 
any longer.’ He persevered for years upon the dry, uninteresting 
through much botanical work long after most men would have 
given up, and when ill-health forbade at ce, application of 
brain or eye. 
‘“‘ He had a great distaste for the trivialities of ordinary society ; 
yet this was joined shiek real courtesy and a readiness to help others 
by lectures, &e., on any of the subjects—and they were many—of 
his special know vledge ; and with a fund of informing conversation 
and amusing anecdote, when one could reach it. 
deep, = the water at the bottom was abundant and refreshing.” 
prominence has here been given chiefly to Linton’s 
Scan ‘with natural science, his power of methodical application to 
work was equally shown in the attention aver to other duties. 
He was a seeker after truth in more directions than one, not one 
to bend truth to his views. His wife ne ago was asked by a 
friend what his views were. ‘‘ Not labelled,” was her reply, and 
the retort much pleased him. His views were very clear, founded 
on sound scholarship and wide reading, but they were not those 
of a party. Another friend, his fellow- ‘tutor at the College from 
1880, the Rev. S. Dyson, who spent each Easter with him at 
- great tatecaet of a country walk with ai a the delight of his 
talk over plants or birds or ie geological formation of the country 
round. He goes on :—* He was also deeply read in those studies 
which belong to the clerical profession. Tt goes without saying 
-that he was familiar with his ogre Testament and had read the 
-latest and best Commentaries on its varied contents. He was also 
piconet oar 
In Shirley, the dosth of their vicar came as a great shock to 
the parishioners, as it did indeed to a much larger circle, fellow- 
botanists and others. He had been out of health for some few 
years, and his former sa was ewe aly al ss his saeipine 
ing 
his imetity-one years’. ministry he had ons! the affection and 
