160 OBITUARY NOTICE OF R. H. ALCOCK. | 
to the study of our native plants, “om either has discovered or been 
the cause of the discovery of many; and very much information 
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for his life was not altogether a happy one, owing to circumstances 
which it is not necessary to state here, and which do not in any 
way concern the readers of this Journal. I cannot better conclude 
than by quoting a characteristic saiinrk which fell from his lips on 
September 17th last: ‘The longer I live the more I feel that I 
must sum up all my prayer in the Lord’s Prayer, and even more 
than all in that one clause of it, Thy will be done.’ — CuaRLEs s C. 
Basrneton.” 
The death of Ranpat Hisserr Atcock, which took place last 
Nov. 9th at Didsbury, cies many miles from Gatley, 
in Cheshire, where he was born on July 21st, 1833,—deserves & 
record in the pages of this J ournal, of which he had for many years 
been = attentive reader. During the greater part of his lie he 
lived at Bury, in Lance ashire, ies he carried on the business of 
a ae it manufacturer ; this he abandoned in 1882 and went to 
Didsbury. Of quiet and retiring disposition, he was a man of much 
general informat tion, and an excellent letter-writer; at one time he 
took a prominent part i 
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Bociety, of which he was President until he left the town, and in 
which he always continued to take much interest: he drew up the 
list of slsais, published in the Boniety: s Report, which is noticed in 
this a = hago p. 277. He was always much interested in 
the w g-met naturalists of Lancashire and Cheshire, and en- 
origin of his ‘ Botanical Names for English Readers,’ published in 
1876 Journ. Bot. 1876, 158), in which he explained the meaning 
of all ical names in use in our floras, prefacing the volume 
with a gaeien executed and interesting History of Botany. This 
work gave an impetus to the classical studies of which he had 
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of Sey on natural nate tory and aia matters to the Manchester 
papers. His death occurred somewhat suddenly, wags wa eae 
of the lungs. Mr. Alcock was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 
Society on Dec. 7th, 1876; he was also a member of the Botanical 
Exchange and Botanical Record Clubs. 
