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Can any reader say what has become of the Rev. Leonard Rudd's Yorkshire 

 collections ? He flourished during the early years of the present century, and it is 

 believed he resided in the north-east of Yorkshire. 



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A subscription has been opened in Liverpool for the purpose of doing honour 

 to a fellow townsman, and it is proposed to present a testimonial to the Rev. H. H. 

 Higgins, M.A., as a recognition of" his long services in the cause of Literature, 

 Science, and Education in Liverpool, to which he came in 1842. His services in 

 connection with the Free Public Museum, the Naturalists' Field Club, the Micros- 

 copical Society, the Literary and Philosophical Society, and other scientific bodies 

 in the city are eminently worthy of recognition. 



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The annual meeting of the Manchester Microscopical Society was held on 

 February 25th. The sixth annual report congratulated the members on the 

 continued prosperity of the Society. Thirty-four new members have joined during 

 the year, leaving the number now on the books 21 1. The mounting section 

 continues its prosperous career, and is steadily growing in importance and size. 

 The whole range of practical microscopy is now included in the syllabus of the 

 section. The financial statement showed a balance due to the treasurer of £4 7s. 

 Mr. J. L. W. Miles was appointed president ; Messrs. H. C. Chadwick, William 

 Stanley, Dr. Tatham, and T. W. Lofthouse, vice-presidents ; Mr. W. W. Dawson, 

 re-appointed treasurer ; Mr. Wilks, secretary ; and Mr. R. Sowood, librarian and 

 curator. ' 



W. W. NEWBOULD. 



At Montagu House, Kew, on April 16th, at the ripe age of 76, in 

 half-conscious contentedness, there passed to his rest one of the 

 foremost, if not the very first of the older school of British critical 

 botanists — the Rev. W. Williamson Newbould, M.A., F.L.S. 



With a decided aversion to figuring in print, the botanical work 

 published over his name is scanty, and reflects very inadequately the 

 breadth and profundity of his botanical knowledge. Those who were 

 privileged to know him as a companion in the field (and at one time 

 or another he has been the mentor— the 'guide, philosopher, and 

 friend ' of, probably, three-fourths of the middle-aged men who are 

 now eminent in botanical science) know that his self-depreciating 

 modesty was but the cloak of a quite unrivalled acquaintance with 

 the faces and characters of British Phanerogams. From the rich 

 stores of his knowledge he was ever eager, almost with child-like 

 readiness, to impart the fullest information to all seeking it. In 

 matters botanical — as well as in others of which it is not our province 

 to speak — his powers of apprehension were well nigh as needle- 

 like in their acuteness as they were to the point and sound (almost 

 intuitively as it seemed) in their conclusions. 



Space will not serve for even a bare enumeration of the ways in 

 which in matters connected with the literature of botany, the history 

 and distribution of British plants, &c, he was facile princeps. No 

 botanist ever had more varied claims to recognition, none ever sought 

 to secure the recognition less. His published writings are confined 



May 1886. 



