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to a recent diseoveiy of the sporogonium of Andrecea with sjwres, 

 from the Devonian of Uoros in Norway, showing a structure ahnost 

 identical with that of the existing plant; 1 have not seen the 

 original account of this, and Fleischer givjs no hint of the nature of 

 the supporting evidence, though expressing no doubt as to the 

 accuracy of the record. A certain number of records of mosses from 

 the Tertiary have been announced, but the evidence on which several 

 of these rest is by no means above suspicion. Thus in a paper 

 on Amei-ican Fossil Mosses by Eliz. (x, JJritton and Arthur Hollick 

 (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxiv. 89 ; 1907) the authors discuss the 

 records of mosses from the various Tertiary deposits, and show prettj^ 

 conclusively that out of five such records thi-ee in all probability are 

 not mosses at all, and a fourth is doubtful, leaving only one, lihyn- 

 chosteglum KnowUoni E. Gr. Brit., from the Upper Eocene or 

 Miocene beds, undoubted ; and to this must be added Glypliomitrlum 

 CocJcerellecB described by the authors in the same paper, based on an 

 unquestionable fruiting specimen from the Tertiary shales of Floris- 

 sant, Colorado. This shows the uncertainty attaching to some 

 of the earlier records. It would seem, however, that there are some 

 half-dozen or more well-established records of mosses from the Baltic 

 amber of the Oligocene (see Brotherusin Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam., 

 Musci, ii. 1289), and an equal number from various Tertiary deposits 

 in Europe. Goeppert (Monatsber. d. Berlin Akad. 1858) enumerated 

 19 species from the Baltic amber, but a large proportion of these rest 

 on very dubious authority. Mention may also be made of the recent 

 discover}^ of an extinct species of moss (ILiium mitiquoriom Card. & 

 Dixon in Bryologht, xix. 51) from the lieuverian (Lower Pliocene) 

 beds or the Dutch- Prussian Border. 



JOHN FIRMINGEK DUTHIE 

 (1845-1922). 



JoHiS^ FiRMTNGER DuTHTE, who died at Worthing on the 28rd of 

 February, was born on the 12th May, 1815, the son of the Kev. A. H. 

 Duthie, rector successively of Sittingbourne and Deal, He was 

 educated at Marlborough College and at Jesus College, Cambridge, 

 where he took the 13. A. degree in 18G7 with a 8rd Class in the 

 Natural Science Tripos. After leaving college he spent some time 

 as a tutor in Somersetshire — notes on British plants fi-om his pen 

 appeared in this Journal for 1871, where he is associated (p. 212) 

 with the discovery of Folygala aiistrinca in Kent, — and then travelled 

 with his mother and sister in Italy, living chiefly at Florence. He 

 collected largely, both in Italy and also in the islands of Malta and 

 Gozo, and published, chiefly in this Journal for 1872-7-1, accounts 

 of the flora of those islands and of that of Tuscany and Monte 

 Generoso in the Italian Lake country ; his collections were unfortu- 

 nately lost in a fire at a repository in Scotland where they had been 

 stored. 



In 1875, in which year he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 



