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of added dates and references, verbal corrections, or items of informa- 

 tion, and in the notes found among his papers, which gave promise of 

 future interesting communications. Foi" such particulars Mr. Boulger 

 and myself were frequently indebted to him in the preparation of 

 the new edition of our Bio</ra2)hical Index, and we had confidently 

 looked forward to his help in correcting the proofs. 



When the War broke out, Wiltshear went into military training, 

 and in .June, 191(5, joined the forces as a private in the King's Royal 

 Jlifies. At the end of that year he Avas invalided home with " trench 

 foot," and in hospital was delighted to meet Avith a fellow soldier who 

 was interested in Botany, and with whom he went through the 

 Journal for 1916, which I sent him at Christmas. When he had 

 recovered, he Avent back to France, keeping up by correspondence his 

 connection Avith the Department. Then came the news that he had 

 '• died of woiinds " in France, on the 28rd of last November. 



Wiltshear was married in 1909 and left one son ; 1 hope before 

 long to publisli a genus named in his honour by an officer of the 

 J)epartnient witli which his name will long be associated. 



James Brittex. 



BinLKXiUAPHICAL NOTES. 



LXXI. T<)UR\EFOiri"s "ToPOftKAPlIIE BoTANTQlE.'" 



Ix the course of my Avork on the Sloane Herbarium, I had 

 occasion, in connection with Tournefoi't's plants preserved therein, to 

 refer to a MS. — no. 82 of the Banksian librai'v and now in the 

 ])epartment of Botany — which is described on its titlepage as •' Cata- 

 logue des Plantes que Mons"^ Pitton de Touvnefort trouva dans ses 

 Voyages d'Espagne et Portugal copie de I'original dud' Tournefort": 

 the title appears in Di-yander's Catalogue of the library (iii. 145). 

 On referring to the MS. again, I found that the late F. Gr. Wiltshear 

 had collated it with information published in various places concern- 

 ing the " original " and had added references to these Avhich, taken in 

 connection Avith the Banksian MS., seem to present features of suffi- 

 cient interest to be worthy of note. 



In BoianiHches Centralblatt for 1S82 (x. 145) is an article 

 headed " Decoviverte a Toulouse d'un ])recieux ouvrage manuscrit de 

 |-*itton de Tournefort " in Avhicli is descril)ed, as an autograph Avork of 

 Tournefort, a small volume of 414 pages, then in the possession 

 of M. C. Ikoumeguere of Toulon. The work, entitled " Topogrnphie 

 Botaniciue,'' had been knoAvn to La])eyrouse, Avho (see his Hist, 

 abr. PI. Pyrenees, p. xxiii : 1818) had acquired it at the death of 

 Lemonnier. in Avhose possession it had been, and gives (p]i. xxxix-lvi 

 and su})pl. pp. 1, 2) a list of the Pyrenean plants contained in it : 

 after this date the volume seems to have been lost sight of xmtil it 

 Avas discovered at Toulon. 



The writer m the Centralhlatt rightly states that the volume had 

 been arranged for publication by [Louis] Reneaulme, and refers to the 

 Memoiresi de VAcademie Frangaise for 1790 as containing " le plan 

 de cette enterprise." It is to be feared hoAvever— or perhaps hoped, 



