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keenly interested in the plants of North Britain, as well as 

 of the Faeroes, Iceland, and Scandinavia, and he corresponded 

 regularly with such students as Ostenfeld, Dahlstedt, etc. 

 Many years ago he attended a botanical congress at (I 

 think) Upsala ; and the few excursions made on that 

 occasion probably led up to his work in our " Ultima 

 Thule." 



For a long time I was in regular correspondence with 

 him about the projected " Flora of Surrey," which his 

 business engagements as a bank official and his other 

 occupations unfortunately prevented him from completing ; 

 and I know how thoroughly he explored even the least 

 attractive parts of that county, making full lists of the 

 commonest, as well as of the rarer and more interesting 

 plants ; so that in some cases he had noted up to 300 

 occurrences of a single species ! All doubtful specimens 

 were examined under the microscope, in the use of which 

 he was remarkably proficient ; and this practice accounts 

 for the fact that his matured opinion about any given form 

 was very seldom wrong. Personally he was reserved in 

 manner, and thus became less well known to his botanical 

 confreres generally than any other man of equal ability with 

 whom I have had acquaintance. In his prime he hardly 

 knew the meaning of fatigue, and was not disheartened by 

 the longest day's tramp over barren ground, with little or 

 nothing to repay his trouble. 



The new species and varieties from Shetland published 

 by Beeby are as follows : CaltJia radicans, Forster, var. 

 setlandica (this he afterwards rightly regarded as only a 

 leaf -form); Hieracium ScJnnidtii, Tausch, var. fealense ; 

 H. dovrense, Fr., var. HetJilandice ; H. breve ; H. zetlandicum ; 

 H. demissuin, Stromf., var. australius ; H. subtruncatum ; 

 H. strictum, Fr., var. Jmmilius ; H. crocatum, Fr., vars. 

 congestuin and vinaceum ; Taraxacum spectabile, Dahlst, 

 subsp. Geirhildce ; and Glyceria distans, Wahlb., var. prostrata. 

 His other additions to the list for v.c. 112 (those which 

 are starred being novelties for Britain, when first found) are 

 mainly taken from Mr. Arthur Bennett's Supplement to 

 " Topographical Botany," ed. 2, issued as an appendix to 

 the "Journal of Botany," vol. xliii. (1905): Ranunculus 



