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in the care of Winchester City Council. A feature of the large 
and valuable collection of birds, stuffed and set up by Mr. Cotton 
and his brother, is the realistic surroundings with appropriate 
water-colour backgrounds to the cases, which Mrs. Cotton was 
chiefly responsible for. 
In Mrs. T. A. Cotton our Exchange Club has lost one of its 
original members, who, apart from the specimens formerly 
contributed, was one who on several occasions helped us out of 
slight financial difficulty. I remember it was in that well-known 
trout stream, the River Itchen, which skirted the Cottons' 
property near Eastleigh, that I first saw Gdnanthe fluviatilis 
flourishing — supposed to be one of the very few phanerogamic 
plants peculiar to England. — H.S.T. 
EDWARD CLEMINSHAW, M.A. (1849—1922). 
Born in 1849, and educated under Dr. Temple at Rugby, 
E. Cleminshaw took part in the foundation of the Rugby School 
Natural History Society, one of the oldest of such school societies 
after that at Bootham, York. He was a scholar of Merton 
College, and took first class honours in Natural Science. From 
Oxford he became Science Master at Sherborne School, and was 
afterwards chemist at the famous glass works of Messrs. Chance 
at Oldbury, near Birmingham. He was unmarried, and lived in 
rooms in Edgbaston, where I often saw him in the ’nineties and 
made frequent botanical excursions with him. We both came 
under the spell of the late J. E. Bagnall, who encouraged 
Cleminshaw to take up Mosses and Hepatics, so that soon he 
became more and more interested in them, and he afterwards 
arranged the collection of Mosses at the University of Birming- 
ham. Bagnall’s paper on The Mosses and Hepatics of Worcestershire , 
in Journ. Bot. 1903, is a record of the work of E. Cleminshaw, 
J. B. Duncan of Bewdley (once a member of the W.B.E.C.) and 
himself. 
Cleminshaw joined this society in 1900, but after contributing 
well selected and neatly dried specimens fairly regularly, he 
withdrew in 1908. He was one of those kind-hearted, happy 
men who never knew what it was to be in a hurry, and he strode 
over the ground in the most deliberate manner, and often carried 
much paraphernalia. But he never quite lost the pedagogic 
manner acquired at Sherborne. His collections were sent to 
Rugby School. — H.S.T. 
