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3n flDemoriam. 
H. FRANKLIN PARSONS, M.D. 
One is not fain to be an obituarist, but needs must when the 
evil circumstance drives. A great botanic publicist long lost 
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to Yorkshire, but who did more to set it in its rightful place by 
systematic analysis and record over a few years than many less, 
gifted have done in thrice the time. Dr. Henry Franklin 
Parsons died (aged 67) on October 30th at his residence in 
Croydon ; his home, I believe, almost from the time when 
he left Goole in 1879, or early in 1880, on being appointed 
.Medical Inspector of the Local Government Board, from 
which by reason of sad personal affliction, he retired in 1911. 
Naturalist, 
