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ALTHOUGH little known beyond a limited circle of botanists and South American explorers, the subject of this notice was in many respects a remarkable man, who, under more favourable circumstances, would have acquired a wider reputation. He was the son of a schoolmaster at the village of Ganthorpe, Yorkshire, and at an early age showed a taste for botany, having compiled a “List of the Flora of the Malton District” in 1837, when he was just twenty years old. For some years he was teacher of mathematics at the Collegiate School, York; and during his holidays he explored Esk-dale, Teesdale, Killarney, and other districts, paying special attention to the mosses and hepatics, among which he discovered many new species, which he described in the Phytologist, the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and in the London Journal of Botany. In 1845 he went to the Pyrenees, where he spent ten months, chiefly devoted to his favourite groups of plants, among which he discovered a large number of new or rare species. These were fully described in a paper published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in 1849.
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W., A. Richard Spruce, Ph.D., F.R.G.S. Nature 49, 317–319 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049317c0
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