332 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
cuts. The weather changes had ee attraction for him; when 
he was about ten he was given a thermometer, — which he 
made daily records of the extremes of temperatu 
sg get = school was at Hitchin. He always mee of himself 
as a backward boy, but the headmaster, Mr. Isaac Brown, must 
have sorter his love of natural history. It was from him he 
received his first insight into the study of mosses on the long 
walks they took in the neighbourhood ; and when he left Hitchin 
he was given the two volumes of the English Flora (Hooker and 
Berkeley) cra with ote and fungi. 
inborn e for natural history which Arthur 
Lister shui show so early was happily developed by cireum- 
shire). He then became a kee: sport, a taste which 
remained with him all his “if, Bibeeh tke sed erate. he 
tended in his later years to give up sport for scien 
Subsequently, when in business at Bradford, ba lived i in farm- 
house lodgings, and so was able to keep up his country pur- 
suits. ag was at Bradford that he a gis ise oe lessons of 
go. Hy ae Mr. Lister married Miss Susanna Tindall, daughter of 
Mr. William Tindall, of a Dulwich ; two years later he removed 
to Sivbinatid: and became a partner in his father’s business as 
a wine-merchant. favicnions Shida’ to be his London home 
till the close of his life. In 1871 he, with two of his brothers, 
beet Boy eed at Lyme Regis, = this beautiful place grew to 
and more a second home to him, especially after he re- 
tired from kines about 1 
ays Mr. Lister had taken an interest in in 
and oftaal plants, but (to quote once more from Miss G. Liste 
notes) ‘tit was not till 1866 that he took up the systematic staid 
of field botany, which was such a joy to him _ rest of his 
lif 
th 
camera lucida. Although ne) in botany, all forms of life 
were interesting to him, and his older notebooks show careful 
sketches of the creatures tcnibl in ge forest ponds and the sea- 
pools. 2 collection of butterflies and moths was also made with 
his children.” 
His studies of the various emape he took up in succession were 
wonderfully thorough. When the present writer first visited him 
at Leytonstone in 1890 he found him following under the micro- 
