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Obituary Notice of Fellow deceased. 



to spend part of their summer holidays together at some remote fishing 

 resort. But he was keenly interested in all his brother's work, and his 

 experiments, cases, and improved methods of treatment were described, 

 discussed, and eagerly canvassed, step by step. 



In the summer of 1866 my uncle Joseph and his wife joined my father's 

 family for a summer holiday at Torquay. My father then first entered on 

 the study of Systematic Botany with his brother's' assistance, he having laid 

 a very good foundation under Lindley, Professor at University College, in 

 the course of his medical training. 



From this time onward sport passed more and more into the background, 

 and was soon entirely given up, though to the end of his life he loved to 

 handle his guns. 



From flowering plants my father passed on and resumed his study of 

 British mosses, making exquisite water-colour drawings of them under the 

 microscope with the aid of the camera lucida. The use of the camera lucida 

 in microscopic drawing he habitually practised in all his work. Each 

 drawing had the magnification indicated, so that the exact size of the 

 structures shown could be easily ascertained. Even a rough sketch made in 

 this manner, with the outlines hastily traced, may be of permanent value as 

 a record of the size, shape, and relative position of the parts displayed. His 

 own drawings so made, with bold, clear outlines, and the tints and light and 

 shade indicated in washes of water-colour, are models of lucid illustration. 

 He regarded this as a great and too much neglected aid in botanical and 

 zoological departments of study. With a half-whimsical perversity he would 

 often make the most beautiful drawing on some scrap of lined paper, and it 

 was then trimmed into an odd polygonal shape, to save space, and gummed 

 into his note-book. A clean sheet of drawing paper was regarded as some- 

 thing so sacred that only the more elaborate illustrations had a chance of 

 being fairly displayed. It was only by much scolding that his daughters, as 

 they grew up, succeeded in effecting a partial reform. 



In this manner, as he extended his investigations to the study of lichens 

 and then to moulds and other fungi, he accumulated a store of accurate and 

 beautifully illustrated notes which were of immense value to him in his 

 work. 



In studying the specific characters of fungi his power of accurate drawing- 

 was of especial value to him, because of the evanescent character of this 

 class of plants and the difficulty of preserving them. He also invented a 

 simple and most effective method of recording the characters of the gills and 

 the colour of the spores of the Hymenomycetes. The pileus is cut off at the 

 summit of the stalk and laid overnight on a clean piece of blotting paper with 

 the gills downwards, being covered with an inverted wine glass or other cover. 

 In the case of dark-spored fungi the blotting paper used is white, while for 

 white-spored species a tinted paper 'is employed. The following morning the 

 spores which have been produced in multitudes during the night and fallen 

 in the still air, directly downwards, are found to have defined with exquisite 



