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became the pastime of his leisure hours. In the course of tune he 
formed a large and valuable herbarium himself, chielly made between 
the years 1835—50, and which was idtimately purchased for tlie 
Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. 
l^Iany years later, in reviewing the ‘ Foot-notes from the Page of 
Nature’ (by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan, 1861), he observed, the 
author’s “ genial enthusiasm brings back to us recollections of our 
own beginrdngs in botany ; the pleasure of gathering a plant at the 
place where some master of tlie science had found it many many 
years before, and the disappointment experienced when we failed— as 
in the case of the Buxbauviia (B. aplujlla), that queer little moss 
named after a (lueer old German, which Sir W. Hooker first 
discovered in England at a spot where we have spent many a 
holiday.” This was in a fir plantation at Sprowston, near Norwich. 
His herbal ivas indeed a source of great delight: to him “there was 
a tale on every page — the flowers ivere the book of his remembrance; ” 
and yet a companion once likened it “to so much donkeys feed ! 
In 1837 he went to Fakenhain, as usher in Mr. Carr’s school, but 
was unable to settle there, and left after three months. ^ During his 
stay he made the ac(iuaintance of iSlr. Legge (the independent 
minister) ; and of Mr. J. Gage Pigg,’'' a student then rca-ling for 
college, the friendly intercourse with whom exercised considerable 
influence upon his religious sentiments. 
After leaving Fakenhain he was employed for a time in the oflme 
of Mr. Prightwell, a lawyer in Norwich; but early in the following 
year (1838) his father died, and thenceforth ho was thrown entirely 
upon his own resources. 
Shortly afterwards he went to London, at the reipiest of Mr. 
Hudson Gurney, to arrange and catalogue the library at his town 
residence in St. James’ Square ; and through Mr. Gurney’s influence 
he obtained, in May, an appointment in the library of the Lritish 
Museum. This office ho filleil little more than twelve months, 
bein- elected next year (1839), chielly on the recomiiiendation of 
Prolisor Sedgwick, to be Sub-curator to the Geological Society 
of London, an office then vacant through the resignation of 
m. Searles AL AVood. 
»Aftcnvanls minister of Marllioroiigh Ohai.el, Old Kent Hoad, London. 
He died in RSGl. 
