GEORGE NICHOLSON, F.L.S. 339 
own intimate acquaintance with him began in the late regi 
when I was living a a and extended until some time 
after I had left seg for South London in we Oar drifting 
apart was due only to the fact that each of us was more than 
fully occupied, and had little time for visiting ehioh involved a 
railway journ ey; our friendship, however, was unchanged, and his 
occasional visits to the National Herbarium were, I think, as 
Fr 
interested in Irish affai e was always a. strong ral 
politics—and a visit which we paid co. Waterford, 
in the of nfirmed this interest e 
as 
usual when he was in the country, Nicholson did a good deal of 
collecting: a set of our specimens is in the National Herbarium. 
About this time his fondness for music found a new enthusiasm 
fe) 
wards laid the foundation of the heart trouble which, during his 
later years, caus im much suffering and to which he ulti- 
mately succumbed at his residence at Richmond on the 20th of 
September. 
University, whose Professor of Botany, Dr. James H. Trail, was 
one of his intimate friends. 
JAMES Britren. 
