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never limited his researches to any one branch of science. An 

 intimate, indeed lifelong, friendship with Professor Sedgwick 

 led Dr. Gough to expend a large amount of his leisure upon 

 geological research, and that a large measure of success attended 

 his investigations no one can deny. It has always been recog- 

 nised that he accomplished excellent results. Thus Mr. H. W. 

 Cookson wrote from St. Peter's College Lodge, Cambridge, 5th 

 January 1871 : 'It will give me great pleasure to receive a copy 

 of your Cryptogamic Flora of the Kendal district when it is 

 ready. I know how much science is already indebted to your- 

 self, and to your fellow-labourers in the field of geology, in years 

 gone by. But for yourself and others the Silurian groups of 

 strata and fossils near Kendal would not have been known so 

 early as they were, and certainly would never have been made 

 fully known to the world by the brilliant labours of M'Coy. 

 Kendal now holds a prominent and very honourable place in all 

 palasontological works on the Upper Silurian strata of England, 

 and in our Catalogues here in Cambridge especially. 5 



Late in life Mr. Gough' s friendship with Mr. Braithwaite 

 induced him to pay considerable attention to the Salmonidce, 

 upon which Mr. Braithwaite wrote a little book. He delighted 

 in collecting shells and in exchanging his duplicates with T. C. 

 Heysham and other friends. Foraminifera had a singular charm 

 for him. He acquired a copy of Blackwell's great work on 

 Spiders, and studied those species which he found in Westmor- 

 land with loving interest. But birds were his first love. So, 

 though he noted for years the first flowering of the blackthorn, 

 — he was an accomplished botanist, — and while the appearance 

 of a Tortoiseshell butterfly, newly roused from its winter sleep, 

 afforded him year after year the same genuine pleasure as 

 before, it was to birds that he devoted his best lectures, and of 

 birds that he wrote with the greatest felicity. The materials 

 preserved do not contain any notes on Wildfowl or Waders. 



Dr. Gough knew many of the shore birds, but his acquaint- 

 ance more particularly concerned the small birds which frequent 

 situations in the interior of Westmorland. Take, for example, 

 this note upon the King Ouzel : — 



' My acquaintance with this bird for many years, on Rowland 



