THE LATE REV. W. W. NEWBOULD. 
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Mr. Bagnall’s first note from Mr. Newbonld was dated 
August 17th, 1880. Mr. Newbonld was then temporarily 
residing at Honington Hall, near Sliipston-on-Stour, and his 
letter spontaneously offered Mr. Bagnall assistance in his 
“Flora of Warwickshire,” as far as the Stour district was con¬ 
cerned, in which he ultimately recorded about 420 plants. 
Mr. Bagnall, about ten days later, had a day excursion 
with him, and describes him as “ one of the most interesting 
companions I had ever met.” During this visit Mr. New- 
bould seems to have persuaded Mr. Bagnall to adopt river 
basins as his basis for county divisions, instead of the main 
roads he had originally intended to take. I well remember 
that some of my most animated discussions with Mr. New- 
bould were on this same point in connection with the Beds 
Flora, as I resolved (most presumptuously I knew) to take a 
geological division of the county, primarily into chalk, gault, 
greensand, and oolitic clays (Beds. Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans., 
March 9th, 1876). Just as with myself, Mr. Newbould made 
Mr. Bagnall the recipient of every atom of information about 
Warwickshire Flora he could scrape together, and as for 
years he had spent his winters almost wholly in the Pleading 
Boom and Herbarium of the British Museum, his collections 
of literary notes were peculiarly extensive and valuable. It 
may further illustrate the way in which he placed his time at 
the disposal of those whom he sought to help, that on his 
return to London he specially searched through the British 
Herbarium at Ivew and the British Museum, for all informa¬ 
tion as to Warwickshire plants, giving transcripts of all notes 
of other botanists on the labels, and subsequently did the 
same thing with Professor Babington’s Herbarium at Cam¬ 
bridge. All this material he freely handed over to Mr. 
Bagnall. 
I have thus far trespassed on the space of the “Naturalist” 
to illustrate a character, alas! comparatively rare. A man 
in whose thoughts and actions self comes really last, is 
worthy of more than a passing thought. I can but wish that 
my dull labouring pen were more capable of worthily disclos¬ 
ing the pure refined gold of one of the brightest characters 
within the sphere of whose influence it has been my lot to 
come. 
