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from |):ist()r;il work, aiul iii lOl!* Iin l)ou<;lit :u\ estate at Tideuliatii, 

 near Cliepstow, iiaiiiiug it ' Offa's Dyke.' It was hoped tliat the 

 release troiii parish work would relieve the depression, but family 

 cares ilecpeiied the gloom ; the loss of his only brother, due to an 

 accident, followed by llie illness and dearh of his wife, and doubts 

 about Ids policy in having bought a large estate with jjossible 

 tiiianc-ial trouble — a purely imaginary trouble — resulted in his 

 being foumi dead in his room on the 2oth \ovember, due to tht> 

 acliQii of poison. 



Although our late Fellow was at Marlborough at the time 

 when the llev. T. A. Pieslon ( l.SIi:i-lUUo) was active as a 

 naturalist in the JSchool <^Proc. Linn. 8oc. 11>04-U5, pp. 49-50), it 

 is piiictically certain that his attraction to botany was acquired 

 at Oxford. His first contribution was a modest ])aragraph in the 

 'Journal of Botany' for 1885, on Pinguicida alpina in Scotland, 

 the first of a series of articles in the same journal which amounted 

 to 24(5, extending over thirty volumes of that serial, and embracing 

 reviews, catalogues of plants observed in various parts of the 

 kingdom, as well as critical remarks (ju such genera as Epilobiuni, 

 Carex, and tiie like. 



The chief contribution to the botany of his native land was his 

 ciirrving through the publication in 1899 of the 'Flora of Jvent,^ 

 which had been in progress in the hands of Mr. F, J. Itanbnry 

 since 1872: to the same pen is due the summary of the Kentish 

 Flora which appeared in the Victoria Flistoiy of the County 

 (19U8): the 'Supplement to the Flora ol Somerset' was under- 

 taken at the instance of the Somersetshire Natural History 

 Society; it came out in 1914: the account of tiin geuas BetuJa 

 in the Cambridge 'British F^lora " was due to him; and many 

 contributions to the works of others were written by him. His 

 critical acquaintance oi British plants led to his being con- 

 stantly appealed to for dt^cisions on doubtful forms, and besides 

 the articles in the ' Jouriuil of Botany' alreadv mentioned, he 

 contributed much to the reports of the two Exciiange Clubs, of 

 which he was an active member almost to the last. 



Two ])lants were named alter him, Hieraciuni Marshalli, E. F. 

 Linton, and litihus Marshalli,, Focke & Rogers ; anotlmv Hier((cium 

 was named by him in honour of his w ife, //. Isabella'. 



For tiie above account the writer has to acknowledge his 

 indebtedness to the Editor of the ' Journal of Botany,' where in 

 the tirst number of the present year (1920) appears a sympathetic 

 and detailed review of the lifework of our late Fellow, accom- 

 panied by portraits of husband and wife. [B. D. J.] 



The Rt. Hon. Alexander Peckover, Jiaron Peckoveu, was 

 born at Wisbech 16rh August, 1830, and was directly descended 

 from Edmund Peckover, a tri)oper in Cromwell's army, and 

 whose landed estate at Fakenham, Norfolk, he possessed. He 

 was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, and became 

 a partner in the bank of Gurney, Peckover & Co., of Wisbech, 



