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which he resided. With a splendid physique and robust health 
he was able to undertake and enjoy exertions from which most 
men would shrink. In the later years of his life, his white hair, 
his long flowing beard, his refined, intellectual, handsome face 
never failed to attract the attention of strangers. Heady to chat 
with any one, he literally lost no opportunity of acquiring infor- 
mation nor of imparting it. To rich or poor, old or young, he 
was equally accessible. Few men possessed more winning manners, 
or greater powers of gleaning information, or of extracting enjoy- 
ment from the observation of facts and phenomena, by himself 
and others, than he did. 'there was scarcely a subject with which 
ho was not to some extent familiar and upon which he could not 
converse; but like so many of the practical naturalists of the early 
part of the last century, he always shrank from recording his 
observations, and as a correspondent it was all but impossible to 
elicit a reply. 
In the present instance it is with him as a naturalist that we are 
more particularly concerned, and it may fairly lie said that his 
interest in Natural History was all round. In early life, Botany — 
in middle life, Ornithology- and in his later years, Astronomy 
were his special studies ; but in Geology, Meteorology, and 
Topography, he was scarcely less interested. 
A native of King’s Lynn, he carried on the business of his 
father, — watch-making, to which that of a jeweller was subsequently 
added, llis speciality, however, was in the repair of chronometers 
and other instruments of navigation, a work which he personally 
carried out. When quite a young man, he devoted much time to 
botany. His herbarium, which still is in the possession of his 
family, was commenced about the year 1839, apparently in con- 
junction with his sister, Miss Lucy JBurlingham, who died early in 
life. In field-botany he was associated with Mr. William B. Bung 
of North Wootton, who likewise was an ardent collector of Norfolk 
plants. The herbarium contains specimens of plants from many 
other parts of England, especially from the neighbourhood of Epping, 
where his cousin, Mr. Henry Doubleday, resided, with whom he 
carried on an active correspondence. Amongst the contributors to 
this herbarium was Dr. Eobert Kaye Greville, F.RS., the author 
of the ‘Scottish Cryptogamic Flora.’ Between the years 1839 
and 1843 his botanical correspondence was evidently very 
