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OBITUARY NOTICE. 
CHARLES BAGGE PLOWRIGHT, M.D., F.R.C.S., J.P. 
Norfolk has produced many enthusiastic workers in natural 
science, but few, if any, of them have achieved the world- 
wide reputation which was accorded to the late Dr. C. B. 
Plowright. No doubt the inhabitants of King’s Lynn were 
aware that their kindly doctor took a lively interest in all 
branches of natural history, as well as in archaeology and folk- 
lore, and was possessed of a wealth of information which was 
always at the disposal of his fellow-townsmen, but few of them 
realised that, on his special subject, he ranked as one of the 
leading authorities, and that his assistance was eagerly 
sought by mycologists in all parts of the world. The study 
of mycology and plant pathology is yearly becoming of 
greater importance, and, as a consequence, the name of 
Plowright, as a pioneer in these subjects, is held in honour by 
an ever increasing circle of students. 
Charles Bagge Plowright, M.D., Hon. F.R.C.S., J.P., was 
born on April 3rd, 1849, King’s Lynn. His boyhood was 
spent in the neighbouring village of North Wootton, where 
on its heaths and marshes he gained his first acquaintance 
with the subject he was to do so much to advance. At an 
early age, he gave evidence of those characteristics which 
always forcibly impressed all scientists who had the fortune 
to know him, viz., the faculty of rapidly assimilating the main 
outlines of any subject,— of advancing immediately to its 
boundaries, — and the ability to select lines of research which 
would add to the common stock of knowledge. At the age of 
fourteen or fifteen, he had mastered the flowering plants of 
