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THOMAS BOLTON, F.R.M.S. 
supported by Sir James Sawyer, M.D., Professor of Medicine, 
and Professor B. C. A. Windle, Professor of Anatomy at Queen’s 
College, Birmingham ; Professor Tild-en, D.Sc., F.R.S., as 
President of the Birmingham Philosophical Society; Pro¬ 
fessors Bridge, Hillhouse, and Haycraft, of Mason College ; 
and by Mr. R. W. Chase, President of the Birmingham 
Natural History and Microscopical Society. In a circular 
letter, thanking his numerous friends, Mr. Bolton assures the 
memorialists that this recognition of his work will be a great 
encouragement to him in continuing those biological 
researches in which he has always taken so deep an interest. 
JOHN MORLEY, F.R.M.S. 
One of the best-known naturalists of the Midland Counties 
has departed from our midst. On the tenth of last month, at 
the early age of fifty-seven, Mr. John Morley passed peacefully 
over to the great majority. 
“ He’s walked the way of Nature, 
“ And, to our purposes, he lives no more.” 
Secretary of the Birmingham Natural History and Micro¬ 
scopical Society since 1876, Vice-President in 1875 and 1874, 
Librarian for the three previous years, and Curator in 1870, 
his connection with the Society, of which he was one of the 
earliest members, has lasted officially for seventeen years. 
During all these years, and especially during those in which 
the Society has been most active in its work, Mr. Morley’s 
energies have been devoted, ungrudgingly and unselfishly, to 
furthering the interests of the Society and the pleasure and 
improvement of its members. In husbanding its resources, 
in laying out its work, in planning its excursions, his unfailing 
business faculty, his time, and his ever-ready help were always 
at the service of the Society, and have benefited it in a 
measure which cannot be over - estimated. His loss can 
scarcely be replaced, and the gap his departure from among 
us has made in the ranks cannot be filled except by the com¬ 
bined efforts of several persons. 
Mr. Morley’s scientific studies were confined chiefly to 
botany, and especially to the British ferns, of which his 
knowledge was very extensive. He was fond of growing 
strange varieties of the common species, and discovered or 
reared several forms which have been possessed by no other 
grower, including one from Ireland which is called after his 
name. 
