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Mennell’s happy union with Maria B. Newman, daughter of 
Edward Newman, the entomologist and fern-lover and editor of 
the Phytologist, doubtless increased his friendships among 
naturalists, and more and more his many services to humanity 
became evident. In 1861 he took over the tea business in 
London of Tuke & Co., founded in 1725, and Mr. and Mrs 
Mennell settled at the Bed House, Croydon, where in later years 
the charm of his beautiful alpine rock-garden was shared with 
many. 
In 1865 Mennell joined the Alpine Club, and many of his 
early climbs were done with his old schoolfellow the late Dr. B. 
Spence Watson. It may almost be said that he introduced to 
English people Fionnay in the beautiful Val de Bagnes, for his 
later Swiss holidays for fifteen successive years were spent in 
that district, and he and his family were often accompanied by 
friends able to join the party. His enthusiasm for the mountains 
and the dowers was contagious, and he endeared himself to all, 
and especially to his guides. I was struck by this in August, 
1901, when I chanced to be at Fionnay. Three years later, in 
his 73rd year, he made his last ascent of a 12,000-feet peak in 
the Combin range. During the British Association meeting in 
Canada in 1884, Mennell and Macoun, head of the Canadian 
Geological Survey, were the first white men to penetrate the 
Yoho Y r alley, now so famous in the liockies. Upper Teesdale 
was one of his favourite English haunts, and in middle 
life he visited it repeatedly. Among his life-long friends were 
the late Alfred Russel Wallace and J. Gilbert Baker. 
Mennell’s herbarium has been presented to Mr. C. E. Salmon. 
H. S. Thompson. 
[From The Journal of Botany, March , 1924.] 
EDWARD A. WILSON (1858—1924). 
[An Appreciation.] 
That remarkable personality, Edward A. Wilson, F.L.S., 
whose death occurred on Monday, June 2nd, was better known 
in Birmingham than in Bristol ; for since 1890 his active life was 
mostly spent in and around the Midland metropolis, where he 
had been a respected City Councillor, a member of the Board of 
Guardians, Master of his Masonic Lodge, and founder and chair- 
man of New-Hudson Limited. 
