Professor Proctor's Neglected Grace.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4999, 9 June 1891, Page 4

Professor Proctor's Neglected Grace.

In one of the obscure- plots in Oreenwtux.l Cemetery lie the remains »>f that gifted scientist. Richard A. Proctor. the astronomer. says the New \ ork Mail and Express. He diet! of yellow fever. and his hotly was. in consequence. indecently hurried into the strive. Titere were no friends to drop .1 tear on his co ttin. Tlie ,mty persons present were the undertaker and hi* men. live grave was >[«iickly closed up, and to-day it is in a disgracettd condition. IH w;is covered by a tangle of ■weeds and hits of old refuse that the high winds have scattered. No loving hand haa planted a rosebud there, aiut the great man s hist resting place is sadly neglected. His widow and family have had a hard time of tt since his death. The deceased left no fortune, and Mrs Proctor was forced to battle for bread "for herself and little ones. She tried many things, hut 'without much success. Fortune refused to smile on her. Finally she went on the lecture platform, and delivered some of her husband's famous lectures, in the hope that she might make enough money to feed and clothe- her children, and have her husband's remains taken hick to his lw>yhood home in England. Hut in this she furled also, and in the meantime the grave is covered with debris, and there is ii" sjtone to mark the sjiot.