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In 1875, with the effectual aid of Mr., now Sir William Thiselton- 

 Dyer, he translated into English for the Oxford University press 

 Sachs' great ' Text-book of Botany.' This book had a most im- 

 portant effect on the teaching of botany in England, turning it 

 away from lectures on organography and systematic botany illus- 

 trated by wall-diagrams to laboratory courses on anatomy and phy- 

 siology. In 1877 he translated and annotated a smaller German 

 book, Thome's ' Structural and Physiological Botany,' of which a 

 new edition was called for in 1885. In 1882 he translated Dalla 

 Torre's 'Tourists' Guide to the Flora of the Austrian Alps,' and 

 between 1880 and 1882 edited, for Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., 

 an English edition of Seboth's beautiful coloured figures of Alpine 

 plants, four volumes, with 100 plates in each. About this time he 

 turned his attention to the study of fresh-water Algae, on which his 

 principal publications were a new classification of the genera, pub- 

 lished in the 34th volume of the Journal of the Linnean Society, and 

 one on the London fresh-water Algae and their localities, in the 

 Journal of the Microscopical Society. In 1889 he published, in 

 conjunction with Mr. George Murray, F.K.S., a ' Text-book of 

 Cryptogamic Botany.' This is probably his most valuable original 

 work. It has been largely used by teachers and advanced students, 

 both in England and America. He revised, for Dr. Masters, F.R.S., 

 the chapter on the Cryptogamia for his fourth edition of Henfrey's 

 * Elementary Course.' In 1897 he published a ' Flora of the Alps,' 

 in two volumes, with coloured plates of the genera and short de- 

 scriptions of all the species. For many years he held the office of 

 Lecturer on Botany to St. Thomas's Hospital and the Bedford Col- 

 lege. He was an excellent and painstaking teacher, and a careful 

 ■examiner. For about four years he acted as biological sub-editor of 

 Nature, under Sir J. Norman Lockyer, and from the beginning of 

 the Academy acted as its botanical reviewer and notice-writer. 

 He joined the Koyal Microscopical Society in 1879, and from that 

 date till his death, wrote the summaries of botanical papers contained 

 in its Journal. For many years he served on the Council, was 

 several times a Vice-President, and from 1897 till 1902, editor of 

 the Journal of this Society. He was from the commencement a 

 member of the Saville Club, and frequently spent his evenings there. 

 His death was painfully sudden. He was riding home from his club 

 on the top of an omnibus, and when the omnibus reached Oxford 

 Circus he fell on to the driver's shoulders, and died before he could 

 be lifted down to the ground. A post-mortem examination re- 

 vealed extensive disease of the heart. He was buried on Tuesday, 

 January 28th, 1902, in the Friends' Cemetery at Isleworth. His 

 wife died a few years ago, and they had no children. 



