THOMAS BOLTON, F.R.M.S. 
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pension Mr. Bolton lias unhappily not lived long to enjoy, but 
none the less is it a source of gratification to his innumerable 
personal and scientific friends that this highest honour that 
the English Government can pay to deserving merit was 
paid to him. 
The funeral at Kinver, on November 11th, was the nearest 
approach to private that the circumstances of the case would 
admit, being attended, besides the immediate family and 
relations of the deceased, only by Mr. T. Grosvenor Lee. 
whose close historical relations with the family is sufficiently 
indicated above, and by the writer of this sketch, as repre¬ 
senting Mr. Bolton’s scientific friends, and especially the 
Society whose curator at the time of his death he was. 
Although the relics of the old works still living at Kinver 
are few, a small number of them, grey or white with years, 
spontaneously gathered together and acted as pall bearers 
to the remains of their former master and master’s son. 
The day was emblematic of the fallen fortunes of Kinver; 
but the cold grey clinging mist, while it shut out the beauties 
of the scene as viewed from the grandly-placed churchyard, 
served but to concentrate thought and attention upon the 
hero of science, whose last years, spent amidst the gloom of 
financial difficulty, were yet brightened by a courage which 
naught could damp, and a Nature love which keepeth all 
things young. 
W. Hillhouse. 
Dr. J. R. Macfarlane, Lecturer on Botany, Edinburgh. 
Henrv B. Brady, F.R.S. 
Professor F. O. Bower, M.A., Glasgow. 
Professor Alfred C. Haddon, M.A., Royal College of Science, Dublin. 
Professor W. Hillhouse, M.A., Mason College, Birmingham. 
Professor T. W. Bridge, M.A., Mason College, Birmingham. 
Henrv Trimen, M.B., Peredenya, Ceylon. 
Professor Alfred Newton, F.R.S., Cambridge. 
Professor Alex. Macalister, F.R.S., Cambridge. 
Professor Isaac Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., Oxford. 
Professor E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S.. University College, London. 
Professor Sir James Sawyer, M.D., Queen’s College, Birmingham. 
J. B. Stone, J.P., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Mayor of Sutton Coldfield. 
Sir John Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S. 
Professor G. J. Allman, F.R.S., Edinburgh. 
Dr. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., Pres. R.M.S. 
Professor B. C. A. Windle, M.D., Queen’s College, Birmingham. 
Professor J. B. Haycraft, M.B., Mason College, Birmingham. 
Professor W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., Mason College, Birmingham. 
R. W. Chase, President Birmingham Natural History and Micro¬ 
scopical Society. 
Thomas Grosvenor Lee, B.A., Birmingham. 
W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., Borough Treasurer, Birmingham. 
