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we have lost by death, are, the Eev. George Weare Braikenridge, 
Mr. F. J, Cresswell, and Mr. W. F. Foottit. Of the first we 
have received the following brief biographical notice : — 
“ The Eev. George Weare Braikenridge, M.A., F.L.S., and F. A.S. 
of Scotland, Avas born in Bristol on the 19th May, 1815, the elder 
son of one of the West India merchants of that city. He was early 
imbued with a strong taste for natural history, which had been his 
father’s chief recreation in intervals of business. Entomology and 
ornithology had the greater charms for him, but later on he added 
to these pursuits that of botany, and he Avas a ‘ Avhole man ’ to 
them all, though nothing of the Creator’s Avorks in nature ever 
came amiss to him. A clergyman of the Church of England, he 
devoted himself for many years to his sacred profession, natural 
history then becoming the recreation merely of his few leisure hours. 
Whenever there Avas an opportunity, he delighted to aAvaken or 
cherish in his younger friends the tastes Avhich Avere so dear to 
himself, often Avith success. When ill health at last obliged him 
to resign his benefice of Christ Church, Clevedon, Somerset, he 
spent several winters in the South of France, induced by its 
attractive flora to resume his botanical pursuits only too eagerly. 
During the last four years of his life he was occupied in the attempt 
to form a complete list of the birds, native or visitors to Clevedon 
and its surroundings, but died before his pleasant task Avas accom- 
plished, on the 19th February, 1882. His collection of the eggs of 
British birds is of some repute. Though personally a stranger to 
the officers and members of the Norfolk and Noi’Avich Naturalists’ 
Society, he Avarmly sympathized Avith it, and esteemed it an honour 
to have his name on its list.” 
Of Mr. F. J. CressAvell, one of our members Avho knew him Avell 
Avrites : — 
“We have also to regret the death of Mr. F. J. CressAvell, Avhich 
took place at Lynn on the 19th September, Avho, although he never 
directly contributed to our Society, has been the indirect means of 
bringing several interesting facts under our notice, the last of AA'liich 
Avas the occurrence of the Grey Seal off the Norfolk coast, a record 
of Avhich Avill be found at p. 415 of the present Amlumo of our 
