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worked at comparative anatomy under Huxley. But his health 

 broke down when he was about twenty, and he went to Davos on 

 account, of })uhnonary tubercle, which after some years healed, and 

 never troubled him again. In the meantime he had taken up the 

 study of bacteriology under Koch at Berlin. The medical men of 

 Davos were not slow to avail themselves of his service for bacterio- 

 logical work and chemical examinations. In the course of his 

 extensive work in this direction, the occurrence of branched forms 

 of the tubercle bacillus and the occasional presence of club-shaped 

 bodies suggested a relationship with actinomydes. To test this view 

 he worked in some of the pathological laboratories of Germany. 

 The outcome of his researches was embodied in a paper in the 

 Centralblatt filr Baktefioloijie, 1895, Nos. 1 to 3. He advanced 

 reasons for regarding the tubercle bacillus as a mould of fungus 

 [sic] instead of as a bacterium, and in a later paper suggested 

 the name * tuberculomyces.' The well-deserved recognition on 

 the part of German bacteriologists of this careful piece of work 

 stimulated Jones to further exertions. But he overtaxed his 

 strength. While he was working in Zurich in 189G, symptoms of 

 vesical tuberculosis appeared. Tliis distressing ailment more than 

 once seemed likely to become quiescent, as the same disease in the 

 lung had previously done ; but the restless energy of tiie patient 

 and his devotion to work led again and again to fresh outbursts of 

 activity. In spite of the great handicap such an illness inflicted, 

 Jones translated Fischer's Structure ami Function of Bacteria for the 

 Clarendon Press. Tlie translation, which appeared a few months 

 ago, was very favourably received. Coppen Jones was a man of 

 sterling worth, honest and painstaking in everything he did, and 

 withal a good fellow." 



Charlotte Mary Yonge. the well-known Anglican writer, to 

 whose list of Hampshire (Hursley and Otterbouriie) plants reference 

 was made on p. 79, died at Otterbourne (where she was born on 

 Aug. 11, 1827) on the 24th of March. Although not a botanist, 

 Miss Yonge had much affection for and some knowledge of plants. 

 The Herb i>f the Field, which first appeared in a little magazine 

 then under Miss Yonge's editorship, was printed as a volume in 

 1853, and again in 1858 ; it is a pleasant little book, in the style of 

 which Miss Anne Pratt was a better known exponent. She also 

 supplied the letterpress for a folio volume of plates (first printed 

 abroad), entitled Lessons from the Vegetable Kingdom ; this was first 

 published in Edinburgh in 1857, and went through several editions. 



The Daily ^ews has been indulging in botany, with the usual 

 result. From its columns (April 17) we learn that "botanists 

 regard the beautiful rambling hedge rose of our country lanes as 

 the original stock whence all the delightful varieties of the double 

 roses of our gardens sprang." We are also told that "railway 

 travellers often mistake" the "yellow grouping" of the lesser 

 celandine " for another gold dainty of early spriug, the gorse," 

 and that " the elegant snowdrop grows in gleaming tufts in every 

 hollow " ; and so on. 



