of Harvey's ' Pkycologia ' — and one that will whet the appetite for the 

 forfchcoiniug new ' Phycologia,' by Messrs. Batters and Holmes. 

 From what has been said it will be seen that we have in this 

 Marine Flora a record of true and faithful research, which establishes 

 Mr. Batters's position in the front rank of British phycologists past 

 and present. G. M. 



" Articles in Journals " for November is unavoidably postponed. 



OBITUARY. 



Isaiah Waterloo Nicholson Keys, the author of ' Flora of 

 Devon and Cornwall,' died at his residence in Whimple Street, 

 Plymouth, on Nov. 4th. Mr. Keys was the son of Elias Keys, a 

 printer and bookseller of Devonport, where he was born, March 

 12th, 1818. He resided during the greater part of his life in 

 Plymouth, where he carried on for a number of years a printing 

 and bookselling business. More recently he gave up the book- 

 selling department, but continued the printing, in conjunction with 

 one of his sons, until the time of his death. Mr. Keys was a man 

 of great industry and considerable mental vigour, and had a taste 

 for literature as well as for science ; in the earlier days of the 

 movement for providing cheap literary evening entertainments for 

 the people he often appeared as a reader of extracts from the 

 works of Dickens and other standard writers, and in this character 

 was in much request, as he possessed considerable histrionic 

 power. He was an old member of the Plymouth Institution and 

 Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, in the 'Transactions' 

 of which body his 'Flora of Devon and Cornwall ' appeared between 

 the years 1866-71 ; it being issued in five portions, each of which 

 was reprinted at the period of issue for private circulation. Mr. 

 Keys also contributed to the pages of the old series of the 

 ' Phytologist' an article entitled "Plants found in Devonshire and 

 Cornwall in addition to those contained in Jones' ' Flora Devon- 

 iensis' and in the 'Phytologist'" (Phytol. iii. 1022-24, 1850). 

 For many years previous to his death he suffered greatly at 

 times from severe attacks of asthma. He was buried at the 

 Plymouth Cemetery, on Nov. 8th.— T. R. A. B. 



James Shirley Hibberd, a well-known and prolific horticultural 

 writer, died at his residence at Kew, on the morning of Sunday, 

 Nov. 16th. Mr. Hibberd was born at Stepney in 1825, and for 

 forty years his name has been familiar to the public in connection 

 with garden literature, flower-shows, and the like, a large number 

 of books and more than one newspaper owing their existence to his 

 energy. In 1870 he issued a little book on British plants, entitled 

 ' Field Flowers : a handy book for the rambling botanist,' which 

 in no way differs from other works of the kind, save, perhaps, in 

 the badness of its illustrations ; and he also supplied the text for 

 Cassell's ' Familiar Garden Flowers.' Mr. Hibberd was buried at 

 Abney Park Cemetery on Nov. 22nd. A portrait and memoir will 

 be found in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle ' of that date. 



