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of his life ; indeed he had never known what it was 

 to be really ill until then. On the previous Sunday, 

 his seventieth birthday, he felt rather better, and 

 turned his thoughts upon his work for the Ray Society, 

 asking to see some proofs which had just arrived. 

 They were the proofs of the plates for the second 

 volume and seemed to give him much pleasure, but he 

 was soon too wearied to attend to them and they were 

 put aside for another day, which, however, never came 

 to him. 



The Freshwater Rhizopoda were not the organisms 

 to which Mr. Cash earliest devoted attention. He 

 was an excellent bryologist, as the following contribu- 

 tion from Mr. W. H. Pearson of Manchester will 

 show. "It was," he says, "at one of the meetings of 

 the now defunct Lower Mosley Street Natural History 

 Society that I made the valued and lifelong friendship 

 of Mr. James Cash. Many of the members were 

 working men interested in all branches of natural 

 history, whilst a section devoted themselves exclu- 

 sively to the study of cryptogamic botany. Arising 

 out of this the Manchester Cryptogamic Society was 

 formed in 1878, Mr. John Whitehead of Dukinfield 

 being the first President and Mr. Cash one of the Vice- 

 Presidents. To its meetings he contributed much of 

 interest, including many specimens. He also read 

 several papers, amongst these being one on the British 

 Andreaeas, at the same time showing specimens of the 

 six species known to be indigenous to Great Britain, 

 gathered by him upon Snowdon and the neighbouring 

 mountains in August, 1879. These are A. petrophila 

 Ehr., A. alpestris Schimp., A. ulpina Turner, A. rupen- 

 tris Turner, A. crassinervia Bruch,* and A. falcata 



* [A. rothii Web. & Mohr.] 



