IN MEMORIAM — WILLIAM CASH 
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At our first meetiDg I was as much attracted by the charm of Cash's 
personality as by his sciertific sympathies. I was a young man just 
beginning to make my way in the world, and the help I derived from his 
encouragement is not easy to appraise. He sent me presents of books, 
many of which have been tools in constant use ever since. He lent me 
others, and in a multitude of ways assisted me — and it is a very gratify- 
ing recollection that during the last year of his life and down to the very- 
day of his death, he found his principal occupation in work upon 
certain features of coal-seams in A\hich we Were jointly engaged. 
Cash's amiable and sympathetic nature was for ever seeking some 
new object upon which to bestow its favours, and great numbers of 
young naturalists, some of whom have since attained distinction, 
owed their start in science, and not a few even their advancement in 
life, to his generosity and helpfulness. One of the most notable of 
these, I believe, was Walter Percy Sladen. Cash helped him very 
greatly and was his chief inspiration, and had Sladen lived it would 
assuredly have made a great difference to Cash's later years. 
He devoted a great deal of his time to popular lecturing. He took 
great care in the preparation of his matter, and many new recruits 
were added to the numerous army of Yorkshire naturalists by his 
stimulating teaching ; nor was he satisfied with the mere germination 
of the seed. He watched over the later growth, and guarded it against 
the chills that might arrest or prevent its full development. 
Peecy F. Kendall. 
[A list of William Cash's papers and monographs appeared in The 
'Naturalist for January, 1915. The Council are indebted to the Editors 
and Publishers of The Naturalist for the use of the accompanying 
portrait]. 
