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MR. J. MOTTRAM ON THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH 
Goliath of some of the other members, excited much attention 
for its compactness and portability ; and a most kindly welcome 
was extended to the young man, who had thus the benefit, not 
only of the microscopical experience of his elders, but also of their 
cultured knowledge on many subjects. 
He deeply valued the friendships he formed, and could only 
hope in after years that during the fourteen years he was their 
secretary and official, he was able in some way to repay their 
kindness ; and it was with great regret that in 1870 he found that, 
from circumstances chiefly beyond his own control, he could not 
continue satisfactorily to fill that office. 
After October, 1853, no notes of the monthly meetings were 
made, but I can say that the following were at various times 
elected members : Hampden G. G^asspoole, of Ormesby, James 
Mottram, Jeremiah James Colman, Dr. now Sir Peter Eade, M.D., 
Dr. Webbe, M.D., then living at Lowestoft, but who moved from 
the district in 1857. 
Hampden Gledstanes Glasspoole (b. 1825, d. 1887), the son 
of an East India Captain, lived for many years at Ormesby, near 
Yarmouth, where he had every opportunity, on the broads and the 
sea-shore, of pursuing his studies in Natural History, and especially 
as a botanist. In later life he lived in London, and was a frequent 
exhibitor to the Quekett Club ; but his kindly smile and manner, 
and his constant supply to his friends of choice material for 
examination and mounting is not forgotten by them. 
In the spring of 1857 a desire was expressed that the Society 
should be photographed in a group. The first attempt, at a meeting 
at Mr. Colman’s, by Mr. J. R. Sawyer, who was then an optician 
and photographer in London Street, was a failure ; but at 
Mr. Crompton’s, on the 30th of June, another trial was more 
successful, E. Eleakley and J. Mottram being the only two 
absentees. 
In the autumn of that year the Society sustained a great loss in 
the decease of Mr. Eleakley, but shortly after received important 
recruits, Frederic Kitton and Francis Sutton, and also Colonel 
Eaddeley, R.A., who was then residing at Gorleston, and who 
rendered yeoman service to science by using his opportunities there 
to secure Noctilucfe in whose frail bodies many diatoms were found 
not previously observed, being of pelagic habit. 
