Published in 1858, this memoir recounts the life and work of the natural historian and geologist Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811 53). Written by his father-in-law, the Scottish naturalist Sir William Jardine (1800 74), the book covers Strickland's early childhood, his education at Oxford, his involvement in and influence upon the establishment of the Ray Society and his notable academic pursuits in natural history before his life was tragically cut short by a freak railway accident in 1853, when he was just forty-two. The reader will gain an insight into Strickland's character, his scientific...