OBITUARY NOTICE. 
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Justices on the Sanitary condition of the Licensed Houses 
in the Borough of King’s Lynn.” 
In 1908, Dr. Plowright retired from medical practice, and 
took up his residence at North Wootton, where he had built 
a house and laid out a garden in accordance with his scientific 
tastes. There may be seen rare plants, Norfolk boulders, 
and Norfolk curios of all kinds, while evidence of his know- 
ledge of folk-lore meets one on every side. To this retreat 
his friends and pupils looked with confidence for a continuance 
of that advice and assistance which they valued so highly. 
But to the deep regret of all, the reward of his toil was denied 
him, and after a painful illness he died on April 24th, 1910. 
At a time when Britain is beginning to recognise the 
importance of the study of plant pathology, and of the 
systematic mycology on which that study must be based, 
it is almost a national calamity that we should have lost, 
prematurely as it seems to most of us, and certainly before 
his career of usefulness was exhausted, the man who was 
acknowledged to be our foremost authority on such matters, 
and the only Englishman in the front rank of the world’s 
mycologists. The whole body of British mycologists looked 
up to him as their leader. Officially his exceptional qualifica- 
tions were more recognised abroad than at home, for Dr. 
Plowright was too independent a scientist to seek favour 
with official cliques, and to that may be attributed the fact 
that he did not receive, what was his by right, the highest 
scientific honour of Great Britain. It is difficult for one who 
owes his knowledge and position entirely to Dr. Plowright’s 
guidance to write of him in terms which will not appear 
extravagant ; I quote, therefore, the following appreciation, 
from the ‘ British Medical Journal,’ which expresses to 
some extent what most of us feel : 
“ Dr. Plowright was a man of whom the profession of this 
country may well be proud. A thoroughly competent and 
skilful practitioner of medicine, he brought to the study of 
his favourite department of science — a department which 
touches animal pathology at many points — the all important 
qualities of perseverance, exactness, and insight. He had 
