100 THOMAS RICHARD ARCHER BRIGGS. 
It was not till 1876, four years after he had been elected a 
F.L.S., tha made Briggs’ acquaintance. I was then movin 
always a very early riser, and eager (I like to believe) to begin his 
i as we were alwa I 
early train, so enabling me to meet him in time for some hours’ 
botanising on the road the first day of his visit. I need hardly say 
of my own neighbourhood as an unvarying result of every such 
long a day out as I chose to accompany him in, or spare him for. 
‘When he went alone, he seldom failed to bring back a full vasculum, 
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preserve, he usually had several little bundles of vouchers of other 
plants to be looked through after his return to the house, before he 
1 ty, Sorting, examinin, s- 
cussing and disposing of the day’s spoils before bed-time; and he 
me in time for this, so as to make 
ind on such occasions his intimate knowledge of country life and 
: his warm sympathy with the employments and asiatadea country 
