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side. His business duties were at all times exacting, 

 thus perhaps enhancing the pleasure of his spare 

 moments. He had an intense love for the country, and 

 memory dwells upon rambles which we took together 

 from our earliest years. Thus we became familiar, 

 while still at a tender age, with most of the rural 

 haunts around Manchester, and amongst the best-loved 

 spots were the BoUin Valley near Bowdon — long 

 famous in the annals of Lancashire naturalists — and 

 Carrington Moss, which in those days was a wild, 

 heather-clad waste harbouring a most interesting 

 fauna and flora. The delight of those country walks 

 together never diminished, and until the close of his life 

 we were in the habit of uniting in frequent rambles 

 through the Cheshire countryside. . . . We remember, 

 too, the keen pleasure which the anticipation of a 

 lengthy holiday had for him. Many of these holidays 

 were spent in Wales, some in the English Lake 

 country, others in Scotland; and at such times he 

 quite forgot that he was getting old, climbing the 

 mountains with the best of us. Only eight months 

 before his death, in the blazing' heat of a glorious 

 June, we joined him in a long ramble from Tan-y- 

 Bwlch over much rough and mountainous country to 

 Aberglaslyn and Portmadoc, and he seemed the least 

 tired of the party at the day's end." 



How the Ray Society came to publish his unfinished 

 work on the ' British Freshwater Rhizopoda ' was told 

 by the present writer in the history of the work at the 

 commencement of the second volume. It is intended 

 to complete it with a fourth volume containing newly- 

 found species of Rhizopoda and the Heliozoa. 



J. H. 



