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paralysis, from which he never recovered, and he died of 

 apoplexy, 23rd September, 1874. 



With much natural ability, and an acute and cultivated 

 mind, Dr. Tate was capable not only of diffusing but also of 

 augmenting science ; but lacking robust health, although he 

 kept up his studies to the close, he had not the physical 

 energy requisite to complete his designs. For this reason 

 his writings were not numerous. He was elected a member 

 of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club in 1852, and in 1857 

 wrote for the Proceedings a " Catalogue of Land and 

 Fresh-water Mollusca found in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Alnwick," and in 1863 " Notes on the Botany of the 

 Cheviots." He likewise contributed very minute and pains- 

 taking lists of the Plants and Mollusca of the vicinity of 

 Alnwick to his father's elaborate History of their native 

 place. In conjunction with J. G. Baker, Esq., F.L.S. 

 (Assistant Curator of the Kew Herbarium), he wrote, in 

 1867, a " Flora of Northumberland and Durham " for the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, — a valuable work of 

 reference to Border botanists. He was elected a Fellow of 

 the Linnsean Society, June 17th, 1869, but contributed 

 nothing to the Transactions or Journal of that learned 

 body. When in the Isle of Wight he commenced a book 

 which he proposed to call " A Handbook of British Medical 

 Botany," and wrought at it for three winters till 1872, 

 but health failing, he was obliged to relinquish it. 



When at Torquay he formed a collection of the Mollusca 

 of the neighbourhood, which is now placed in a cabinet in 

 his house at Fareham. His valuable herbarium, to which 

 he was constantly adding, contains about 1600 specimens of 

 British plants. The collection and arrangement of it were 

 the work and delight of a life-time. 



Mrs Tate, two sons, and a daughter survive him. 



