190 Obituary Notices, by James Hardy. 



v., pp. 79-81 (1861) ; 2. Botany of Hulne Park, lb. v., pp. 193- 

 198 (1861). In this, wbat is called Corydalis solida proved to be 

 a foreign species of Bielytra, either formosa or Canadensis ; 3. On 

 the plants of Holy Island, lb. vi., pp. 10-15 (1862). Dr Henry 

 Trimen's description of Psamma Baltica appeared with a plate in 

 the "Journal of Botany," 1872; and is transferred with some 

 additional remarks from a different source to the Club's Proceed- 

 ings, vol. vi., pp. 441-443. 



He had become connected with the Thirsk Botanical Exchange 

 Club in 1861, and in 1864 was elected a corresponding member 

 of the Society of Amateur Botanists (Science Grossip), 192 

 Piccadilly, W. It was not tiU Sept, 29th, 1875, that he joined 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, but he had previously at- 

 tended many of the meetings, with great zest. There was a 

 meeting at Kyloe Crags, on May 25th, 1870, at which he was 

 present ; and to it the following extract from a letter of the Eev. 

 Wood Eobert, Westward vicarage, Wigton, refers. " What a 

 treat your excursion with the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 must ha.ve been. Did it not revive some of your old enthusiasm, 

 and raise again some of that feeling and spirit, by which I well 

 recollect you were once described as that ' energetic Botanist, our 

 correspondent from Alnwick, Mr Richardson.' " 



Mr Eichardson's extensive Herbarium, amassed from a great 

 variety of sources, was bequeathed to his grandson, the son of 

 our active corresponding member, Mr T. H. Gibb, Alnwick. 



I shall now resume Mrs Gibb's narrative. "I think Holy 

 Island woidd be amongst the last places he visited. The August 

 holiday was always devoted to that place. Sometimes he staid 

 over the night. I need scarcely say, that it was at that time he 

 discovered the Psamma Baltica. You cannot conceive what 

 pleasure that gave him. As you know he was a man of few 

 words, and shrank from his name being brought forward ; but 

 he could not conceal from us how very pleased he was, when it 

 was declared to be a real discovery. 



"Of late years he was greatly failed. I mean old age crept 

 on his physical frame — but he was, as far as his mind was con- 

 cerned, as young as ever. He took the same interest in his 

 botanic garden, especially his roses, as ever he did ; and in pas- 

 sing events, and people and things surrounding him. He never 

 was an old man in the true sense ; I never thought him old. He 



