78 MR. F. D. PALMER ON OLD-TIME YARMOUTH NATURALISTS. 
The Glasspooles (father and son). The former of whom, 
Iiichard Glasspoole, was a native of Yarmouth, where the family 
had been settled for several generations. At an early age he went 
to sea, in the service of the late Hon. East India Company, and 
rose to command the “ Buckinghamshire/' one of their fleet. He 
was an ardent sportsman, and made a large collection of birds 
and other objects of interest, many of which he presented to the 
Norwich Museum, of which institution he was President in 1844. 
There is an interesting account of his capture by Chinese pirates 
in ‘Banditti and Bobbers.’ He died in 1846 at his residence, 
where the family still reside, at Ormesby. 
Hampden Glasspoole (son of the above), born 6th April, 1825, 
died 5th March, 1887, with whom I was personally acquainted, 
although not in connection with his studies ; thus I am indebted 
to Mr. Geldart for the following notice of his life and work. 
Glasspoole was a good botanist, and had collected a large local 
herbarium, which included smaller herbaria collected by John Priest, 
George Clowes, and George Cooper, all of which are now in 
Mr. Geldart’s possession. He added one species to the British 
flora ( Car ex trinervis, Deyland), and two species to the County 
list ( Ammopliila baltica, Link, and Sparganiam neg/ectum, Becby). 
He was, for many years, Honorary Curator of Botany at the Norwich 
Museum, and, for a short time, he was Botanist at the Alexandra 
Palace. He was a member of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society from its commencement, and wrote two papers, ‘Biographical 
Memoirs of some Norwich Botanists,’ and ‘Memoirs of Lilly Wigg,’ 
published in the Society’s ‘Transactions.’ He also wrote several 
papers on botanical subjects for ‘ Science Gossip.’ He was “in” 
with a very good set of botanists in London, such as Arthur Bennett 
ot Croydon ; James Britten, South Kensington ; E. S. Holmes, 
Pharmaceutical Society ; Daydon Jackson, Kew ; the late Bev. 
\Y. W. Newbowld, and the late W. W. Beeves, and others; and 
these London Iriends would say : “ If we could only get Glasspoole 
to tell all he knows, we should learn something.” His modesty 
in showing his knowledge was only equal to his kindness in 
working tor other people ; he would take any amount of trouble 
in identifying specimens, or hunting up references for his country 
iriends. He was as much interested in Microscopy as in Botany; 
