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garts. In cryptogamic work, more particularly in mosses and 
freshwater and marine alge, he was even more successful, his 
additions to the county lists running to great length. 
F. Hamitton Davey. 
Mr. Tria was sent to a boarding-school at Wadebridge at 
the age of twelve, and after two years’ tuition came home to work 
I first had the pleasure of making his acquaintance about 1866. 
He contributed towards the lists of mosses, scalemosses, and 
lichens of Devon and Cornwall, published by myself and M, T. 
Brent in the Transactions of the Plymouth Literary and Scientific 
Institution in 1872, vol. iii., as well as to the Flora of Devon and 
Cornwall, published at Plymouth by J. W. N. Keys in 1866. But 
History and Antiquarian Society (vol. ii. pp. 73, 379), following a 
rmw: . Ralf In fact, 
Tellam as thoroughly explored East Cornwall as W. Curnow and 
Ralfs did the western portion of the county. Probably no one 
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works could be borrowed, he worked at a disadvantage, and, being 
naturally thrifty, to which fact he probably partly owed his success 
in farming, he denied himself the luxury of bu ing expensive 
books on scientific subjects, preferring rather to do good by stealth 
with such money as he could spare. Had this not been the ca 
he would have been able to contribute much more matter than he 
did to current botanical literature. By the Falmouth Polytechnic 
Institution, Tellam was awarded a first silver medal for two volumes 
of British seaweeds, which are now in the Bodmin Museum ; 
another for a collection of mosses; a third for nine volumes con- 
taining wild flowers, grasses, and ferns, now in the Truro Museum ; 
and a first bronze medal for a book of Cornish seaweeds; and he 
