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Plate XXIII. 
Plate XXIV. 
Plate XXIV. 
Plate XXV. 
Plate XXV. 
Plate XXVI. 
Plate XXVI. 
Fig. 2. Gonidial layer of the above ; (a) fully developed 
gonidium ( Chlorella cell), showing central 
nucleus and a small excentric body surrounded 
by a light area ; (b) group of daughter gonidia 
just after liberation from a mother cell. X 
1000. 
Fig. 3. Gonidial layer of the thallus of Evernia 
prunastri Ach. ; (a) normal gonidium; (b) 
sporulating gonidium. X 1000. 
Fig. 4. Gonidial layer of Dermatocarpon aquaticum 
A, Zahlbr, showing ; (a) vegetative division 
of a gonidium ( Protococcus cell). X 1000. 
Fig. 5. Asci, each with eight uni-septate ascospores, 
from the perithecium of Acrocordia Salweii, 
A.L.Sm. ; (a) fertile ascus ; (b) immature ascus. 
X 250. 
Fig. 6. Ascus with eight ten-septate spores from the 
apothecium of Graphis elegans Ach. X 250. 
Fig. 7. Asci, each with eight multi-septate acicular 
spores, from perithecium of Gongylia viridis 
A.L.Sm. ; (a) fertile ascus ; (b) immature ascus. 
X 250. 
Fig. 8. Asci, each with four thirty—to forty—septate 
spores, from apothecium of Conotrema urceolata 
Tuck ; (a) and (b) as above. X 250. 
SAMUEL HARSNETT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. 
By GEORGE RICKWORD, F.R.Hist.S. 
TRead at Colchester, March 27th, 1921.] 
D URING the sixteenth century several Colchester men 
achieved distinction in the service of the Commonwealth. 
Thomas Audley, a yeoman’s son, rose from the office of 
Town Clerk of Colchester to that of Lord Chancellor of 
England and a Knight of the Garter ; John Lucas, another 
lawyer, founded, from monastic spoils, a family which in the next 
generation ranked with the first houses in the land ; and William 
Gilberd, the son of yet a third lawyer, became physician to two 
sovereigns and gained undying fame by his scientific discoveries 
as the Father of Electrical Science. 
A Colchester lad, Samuel Harsnett by name, rose from yet 
humbler beginnings, by sheer force of merit, to the position 
of the third person in the kingdom outside the blood royal. He 
was born on, or just before, June 20th, 1560, when he 71; 
