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Plate XXIII. Fig. 2.
Plate XXIV. Fig. 3.
Plate XXIV. Fig. 4.
Plate XXV. Fig. 5.
Plate XXV. Fig. 6.
Plate XXVI. Fig. 7.
Plate XXVI. Fig. 8.
Gonidial layer of the above ; (a) fully developed
gonidium (Chlorella cell), showing central
nucleus and a small eccentric body surrounded
by a light area; (b) group of daughter gonidia
just after liberation from a mother cell, x
1000.
Gonidial layer of the thallus of Evernia
prunastri Ach. ; (a) normal gonidium; (b)
sporulating gonidium. x 1000.
Gonidial layer of Dermatocarpon aquaticum
A. Zahlbr, showing ; (a) vegetative division
of a gonidium (Protococcus cell), x 1000.
Asci, each with eight uni-septate ascospores,
from the perithecium of Acrocordia Salweii,
A.L.Sm. ; (a) fertile ascus ; (b) immature ascus.
X 250.
Ascus with eight ten-septate spores from the
apothecium of Graphis elegans Ach. X 250.
Asci, each with eight multi-septate acicular
spores, from perithecium of Gongylia viridis
A.L.Sm. ; (a) fertile ascus ; (b) immature ascus.
X 250.
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.
[Read at Colchester, March 27th, 1921.]
DURING 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 was