WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 163 
sequently removed to Comberton, where he married Miss Fendall, 
& mece of the rector, the Rev. James Fendall, after which event he 
resided for some time at the adjoining village of Toft, there being 
| no house suitable at Comberton. While here he made the acquaint- 
: ance of Mr. W. Mathews, now of Birmingham, but then at St. 
| John’s College. 
While at Bluntisham he was not idle, as is shown by the 
wens, With various manuscript notes, in the form of ‘ Newbould 
S.”” («Top. Bot.’ ed. i. 580). He also contributed catalogues 
marked for Surrey, Middlesex, Cambridge, and 8.W. Yorkshire. 
It was during his residence at Bluntisham that he made the 
q ae _l accepted his invitation, and, when the term ended, went to 
3 ~ Untisham. On this occasion I remember being struck with his 
"Sat t i tion on subjects which more especially 
interested him, such as botany, poetry, and metaphysics, and the 
vy of the latter as based on phrenology which had great 
igen for him. The great phrenologist Spurzheim had nurse 
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- Watson, for whom he always entertained the greatest veneration. 
their friendship may have been established through this circum- 
Stance. The tribute in ‘Topographical Botany’ to Mr. Newbould’s 
Seneral helpfulness may be quoted here :—‘‘In various modes I 
have been assisted by Mr. Newbould, while writing this and former 
_ Works. Indeed that gentleman’s ever readinees to take trouble on 
behalf of other botanists is too well known to need eulogy from my 
