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l9]l; six Volumes were planned, but the work was hindered, 

 Hrst by a nervous illness of fbe younger Wesf, whicb prevented 

 bis completing (he necessary drawings, and then the war, so that 

 only a preliminary draft or sketeli was left, which may possibly 

 be publisiied as a memorial vohjme at a later dnte. Our own 

 pages bear witness to their unceasing activity : — In our ' Trans- 

 actions ' appeared tlie " I'resbwater Alga? of JMadagascar " (189a), 

 ''North American Desmideav" (1896), "Freshwater Algaj of 

 Ceylon"— all papers of considerable length, illustrated by many 

 plates, autotyped from the pen drawings of G. !S. AVest. Our 

 Journals contain from the latter, " Variation in Desmids "(1S99), 

 Tanganyika results (1907), "Critical Green Alg® " (1 908), and 

 " The Plankton of Yan Yean lleservoir" (1909). Shorter papers 

 were printed in the 'Journal of Botany,' three at least, and others in 

 the 'NewPbytologist," Journal of theKoyal Microscopical Society,' 

 and the 'Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club.' He \\as 

 responsible for the account of the freshwater alga? published in the 

 volume edited by Mr.F.Morey in 1909, and with Mr.E.F. Grilhth, 

 an account of a giant sulphur bacterium named after his predecessor 

 in ti)e botanic chair at Birmingham, Hillhousia. 



Two works on his special subject have been issued from the 

 Cambridge University Press: the first, on British Freshwater 

 Alga', appeared in 1904 ; the other, on Alga?, simply was the 

 first volume only, the second was to follow it. 



Our late Fellow's influence in the University was great ; he 

 eiijoyed the reputation of being one of the best lecturers at 

 Pirmingham, his clearness, conciseness, and admirable method in 

 which he arranged the subjects of his lectures so as to enable 

 his audience to grasp all salient ])oints, and his blackboard dia- 

 grams, all joined in rendering his discourses memorable. 



Besides his own duties, he served on uuiny committees, including 

 the Board of Agricultun? and Fisheries for Staffs, Warwick, and 

 Salop, and the Agricultural College, Studley. He was responsible 

 for phmniiig the grounds of the New University buildings at 

 Bournbrook, Birmnigham. He threw himself into the matter of 

 re-afforestation, and personally insjiected the plantations and old 

 pit-banks. 



His library of algological works and herbarium have been left 

 to the University of Birmingham and his extensive series of 

 drawings to the British Museum (Natural History). 



The lute Professor married in 190(5, and leaves a widow and 

 two children ; he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 

 the 4th April, 1001. [B. H. J.] 



