IN MEMORIAM : THOMAS HICK, B.A., B.SC. (lOND ), A.L.S. 235 
He was an Honorary ^Teniber of the Yorkshire Geological and 
Polytechnic Society, elected tiiereto in recognition of his carefnl and 
accurate researches into the structure of the Carboniferous plants ; 
lie was for some time president of the Leeds Naturalists' Club and 
Scientific Association ; also for one year President of the Harrogate 
Literary Society, and on leaving the town the members of this Society 
showed the high estimation in which he was held by making him a 
valuable presentation. The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union held h'm 
in great respect as a gifted member ; as a member of the Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society he contributed several excellent 
papers to its Transactions. An interesting memoir of him appeared 
in the Owens College Union Magazine for October, 1896, and another 
one, from the pen of his old friend, Dr. F. Arnold Lees, in the 
" Naturalist" for March, 1897. In 1894 the Linnean Society showed 
appreciation of his contributions to Botanical Science by electing him 
to one of its twenty-five Associateships. 
To the late Professor Huxley and to Mr. Thistleton Dyer he 
owed his training in biology ; he was an ardent follower, one may 
indeed say a devoted disciple, of Huxley, whose character and method 
of work won his enthusiastic admiration. His knowledge of struc- 
tural botany was extensive and profound, and he was well versed in 
current foreign (especially French and German) botanical literature. 
As a lecturer he was singuhirly clear, logical, and even fascinating ; 
his visits to Halifax and Harrogate were always looked forward to 
with the greatest interest by a wide circle of admirers in these towns, 
where he commanded large and enthusiastic audiences. One of his 
last public lectures was given under the auspices of the Halifax 
Branch of the Sunday Lecture Society, and was exceedingly well 
received. 
Li Dr. F. Arnold Lees' appreciative memoir, published in the 
'* NaturaHst," very pleasing allusion is made to a small private Mutual 
Luprovement Society which met fortnightly in Leeds, where such 
well known Yorkshire Naturalists as Hick, Davis, Lees, Todd, 
Abbott, and Watson, discussed science and philosophy together. In 
Halifax too he was a welcome visitor to a similar Society where 
the late J. W. Davis, the late Geo. Brook, W. P. Sladen, C. P. Hob- 
