6o PE0CEEUINO8 OF THE 



Tulicraccous fungus to the Eoyal Society, followed by hia being 

 elcctc'd into that Society in 1858. On the retirement of Mr. J. 

 J. Bennett, in 1860, from the Secretariat of the Linnean Society, 

 Mr. Currey was chosen as his successor ; and continued in that 

 office until 1880, when he relinquished it to undertake the 

 duties of Treasurer, which ])osition he held at the time of his 

 death. 



In 1859 he undertook his most extensive work in the shape of 

 a translation, with considerable additions by the author, of Hof- 

 meister's ' Vergleichende TJntersuchungen ueber der . . . hoeherer 

 Kryptogamen.' This was published in 1862 by the Eay Society, 

 under the title ' On the Germination, Development, and Fructi- 

 fication of the Higher Cryptogamia,' &c. This was quickly fol- 

 lowed by his edition of Dr. Badham's ' Esculent Funguses of 

 England ' in 1863, in which he restricted himself to corrections 

 and bringing the work down to date. Several communications will 

 be found in the Journal and Transactions of the Society, which 

 are set out in the ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers.' Amongst 

 them may be mentioned " Notes on British Fungi " in 1864, and 

 his last contribution, " On a Collection of Fungi made by Mr. 

 Sulpiz Kurz," 1876. With Daniel Hanbury he prepared "Ee- 

 marks on Sclerotium sfqntafum, Berk. & Curr., Pachyma Gocos, 

 Fries, and some similar Productions,' 1862 ; and, with Dr. Wel- 

 witsch, "A Description of the Fungi collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch 

 in Angola during the years 1850-61 " (1870). 



The latest production of his pen was issued last spring in the 

 Eeport of the West Kent Natural-History, Microscopical, and 

 Photographic Society, an association which had absorbed the 

 Greenwich Natural-History Club before mentioned. The paper 

 is entitled " On some Useful and Noxious Fungi;" it is a pojjular 

 resume of well-known facts ; but is of interest as testifying to his 

 abiding interest in local natural history. He was twice President 

 of this Society, on each occasion for a term of two years. 



For some years he had considered his health precarious ; but 

 only a short time before his death, from an affection of the 

 liver, was any alarm felt by his family. He died at Blackht\ath 

 on September 8th, and was buried at Weybridge, 13th September, 

 w^here his wife had been interred some years before. His col- 

 lection of Fungi, by his express desire, has been added to the 

 Herbarium of the Eoyal Gardens, Kew ; and many of his books 

 have been generously presented by his family to the Library of 

 the Linnean Society. 



Mr. Currey'slong official connexion with the Society had given 

 rise to a large circle of friends ; whilst his ever kind and genial 

 manner had attached them to him by close tics of esteem. By all 

 his loss will be felt as that of a personal friend, an officer of large 

 experience whose place it will be difficult to fill. 



Indisputably the greatest loss this Society has sustained during 

 the past tvvelvemouth has been the removal by death of Ciiaeles 



