In Memoriam : Arthur Rufus Sanderson. 12 7 
Garden, of whose original twelve members only four 
remain. 
Some three years ago Mrs. Beanland died, but his brother 
and sister and two married daughters survive him. 
Always helpful to others, his appearance at the meetings 
of the Societies with which he was associated was always 
marked by his having something of interest to show and 
some interesting observations to report. 
He was very hopeful when in the early years of this century 
there was such a boom in Nature Study in the Schools, for 
he hoped it would lead to a large increase in the number of 
Field Naturalists. 
Genial, kindly, a real nature-lover, and withal a sound 
botanist and entomologist, he was a mine of information on 
field work in the county area allotted to Bradford for study. 
Botanists of his type have laid those sound foundations 
upon which much of the superstructure of Ecology has been 
built. It has often been remarked that Mr. West was an 
ecologist before the ‘ subject ’ was officially recognised, and 
the same might be well said of Mr. Beanland. All who knew 
‘ Jo ' Beanland will miss him much. 
ARTHUR RUFUS SANDERSON, F.L.S. 
The year 1932 laid a heavy hand on Yorkshire botanists and 
the loss of J. Beanland, H. H. Sturdy and A. R. Sanderson 
in a few short months will long be felt at such times as we 
should have instinctively turned to them for help and guidance. 
Sanderson and Beanland were both keen members of the 
Bradford Society and both owed a great debt to William 
West like so many other past and present members of this 
Society. They were both naturalists in the widest sense, 
pre-eminently botanists, but also workers in other branches, 
particularly Entomology. Sanderson was always far more 
interested in field work, collecting or investigating, than he 
was in recording his work. He was always delighted to have 
others with him in the field, and many of the school children 
who were privileged to attend school rambles with him or 
those older people who attended the evening classes, followed 
by summer field work that he conducted at Dewsbury will 
long recall the interest he aroused amongst them. 
A paper he published in this magazine in 1916 on Brejeldia 
maxima will serve to show the thoroughness of his work. He 
had a mass of plasmodium of this species under observation 
for thirty hours, taking portions and fixing them every fifteen 
minutes from eighteen hours onwards. He published an 
instructive and useful list of the Mycetozoa of the Austwick 
1933 June 1 
