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Linton  ;  and  I  willingly  consent,  although  unable  personally  to  add  to 
what  has  been  already  published  in  the  memoir  of  him  by  his  brother 
the  Rev.  E.  F.  Linton,  which  appeared  in  the  “Journal  of  Botany  ”  for 
March  m  the  present  year. 
“  I  knew  him  with  increasing  intimacy  during  the  last  twenty-one 
years  of  his  life,  and  learned  to  form  a  very  high  estimate  of  his 
unbounded  patience  and  untiring  perseverance.  In  field  botany  this 
shewed  itself  in  the  thoroughness  of  investigation  to  which  he  was 
wont  to  subject  uninteresting  as  well  as  interesting  localities  I 
recollect  joining  him  at  an  inn  in  the  Peakland  of  Derbyshire,  at  which 
he  had  been  already  stopping  some  time,  and  assisting  him  in  the 
investigation  of  what  appeared  to  me  a  singularly  dry  and  uninteresting 
hill- side,  which  belonged  however  to  the  County  the  botany  of  which  he 
had  undertaken ;  and  the  fruits  of  this  thoroughness  are  seen  in  the 
“  Flora  of  Derbyshire ’’ which  he  published  after  more  than  ten  years 
of  patient  work  of  this  sort.  He  never  gave  in,  although,  in  many 
expeditions  m  which  I  have  been  with  him,  he  was  the  least  able  of  the 
party  to  bear  the  fatigue  ;  with  the  result  that,  at  the  end  of  a  long  dav 
he  had  accomplished  as  much  as  the  strongest  of  us.  He  was  also 
extremely  methodical  in  his  habits ;  the  daily  walk  which  his  state  of 
health  rendered  necessary  was  always  punctually  taken,  regardless  of 
the  weather.  ® 
,,  .  “  In  critical  genera  and  groups  of  farms  these  qualities  were  seen  at 
their  best ;  and  the  change  which  his  and  his  brother’s  researches  have 
made  m  the  intelligibility  of  the  Salices  and  Hieracia  of  Britain  can  only 
be  appreciated  by  those  who  endeavoured  to  grope  their  way  in  them  in 
times  previous  to  these  helps.  Once  the  light  has  rendered  groups  of 
this  sort  easy  of  study  one  is  apt  to  under-rate  the  achievements  of  the 
light-bearers. 
“Linton’s  excellences  also  rendered  his  work  in  all  the  Botanical 
Exchange  and  similar  clubs  dealing  with  British  plants  invaluable.  The 
Botanical  Record  Club,  the  London  Botanical  Exchange  Club,  and  the 
Moss  Exchange  Club  owe  him  a  large  debt  of  gratitude  ;  and  not  least,  is 
due  to  him  from  the  Watson  Club,  of  which  I  understand  him  to  have 
been  an  active  member  from  its  beginning  to  the  date  of  his  death. 
,,  “Lis  herbaria  have  been  presented  to  the  Liverpool  University 
they  will  thus,  as  he  would  entirely  have  wished,  be  still  available  to 
students.” 
AUGUSTIN  LEY. 
An  additional  copy  of  the  Report  will  be  sent  to  any 
member  who  informs  the  Secretary  that  he  would  like  to 
have  two  for  cutting  up  as  well  as  one  for  preservation. 
GEORGE  GOODE, 
Hon.  Secretary . 
