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Notarisia," v., 1894, p. 717). According to this latter author, 

 who has also been unexpectedly removed by death, the forma- 

 tion of these spermatia greatly resemble those of the genera 

 Bangia, Porphyra and Wildemannia, and appear to have a special 

 bearing on the definitive systematic position of the Bangiaceae. 

 This sketch of Mr. Buffham's career as an algologist, com- 

 pressed as needs must be into a few lines, gives us the impres- 

 sion of great originality. Apart from the works here enumerated, 

 the remembrance of our regretted colleague will survive by the 

 dedication to him of a new genus, Buffhamia, which Mr. Batters 

 has recently erected in honour of him whose loss we all 

 deplore. 



Dr. G. B. De-Toni, Padua. 



