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Padua beiii^f tlireuteiied uilli boiiiljardiut-nt as a consequence oi 

 the disaster of Caporetto in Novemljer 1917, he removed to 

 Avellino to tlit^ house ot" his son-in-law, Prof. TrottiM-, who had 

 married liis dauj^hter Maria, .staying tliei'o till June 191 'J, when 

 he went back to Padua. A (short illness, which did not at tirst 

 seem serious, carried him otf on 11th Pebruary, 19:^0. 



It is said that Saccardo's first attempt at tiie study of botany 

 was in 1857, a boy of twelve, when an uncle had planted an 

 orchard with ticketed specimens; upon this the youngster began 

 to collect and determine the plants of the countryside, and 

 followed up his acquisition of this herbarium by establishing 

 a small botanic gai'den at ISelva. His ' Prospetto della flora 

 trevigiana' was his first printed botanical work; it came out 

 during 1863-64 in the Venetian ' Atti,' and its success seems to 

 have been the deteiiniuing cause of his devotion to botany; a 

 revision was issued in 1917, one of his last efforts, as 'Flora 

 Tarvisina renovata.' His attention was then attracted to 

 cryptogams, mosses at first, and the ' Mycologiae \ enetse Specimen' 

 (1873) betrayed the mycologist, who was destin>.'d to work so 

 strenuously amongst the fungi. Armed with microscope and 

 micrometer, and gifted with a retentive memory, he issued in 

 succession 'Fungi Veneti novi vel critici' (1873-82; ; 'Notae myco- 

 logicae,' ended in 1918; ' Mycotheca Veneta,' a set of 1600 dried 

 specimens, and ' Fungi italic! autographice delineati ' (1877-86), 

 1500 plates, the originals being drawn and coloured b)' the author. 

 In the late 'seventies Saccardo initiated the journal ' Michelia.' 



His 'Conspectus geiierinn Pyreuoniycetum italicorum systemate 

 carpologico distributorum ' shows that he had been studying the 

 problems of mycology so as to evolve a system founded upon the 

 forms of fruit, a scheme which our own countryman, M. C. Cooke, 

 attacked as artificial and better adapted tor the use of girls and 

 idle brains, whicli was vigoi'ously answered by Saccardo. During 

 this time he was busy on tlie great work of his life, ' Sylloge 

 fungoruni,' the first volume of which saw the light in 1882, and 

 closed with the 22nd volume in 1913, having 72,U00 species, with 

 MS. material in addition, which would bring up the number to 

 80,000. Help in this vast work was received from Berlese, 

 De Toni, Trevisan, Sydow, his son Domenico, his son-in-law 

 Trotter, and many others. 



A full bibliography of the work of our late Foreign Member will 

 be found in the ' Xuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano,' n. s. xxvii. 

 (1920) pp. 5S-74, by Dr. Domenico Saccardo, which is imme- 

 diately followed by a posthumous paper, " Mycetes boreali- 

 americani," of fourteen pages. He was elected one of our Foreign 

 Members on the 4th May, 1916. [P. D. J.] 



Henry Fulueeick Conrad Saxdee was born in 1847, and early 

 in life was employed by Messrs. James Carter at their nursery 

 at Forest Hill. AVhilsf here he met with Benedict lioezl, the 



