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When nine years of age, Mr. Broome was sent to school at 

 Kensington under Dr. Jamieson, who removed to Heston near 

 Hounslow a few months later, and there Mr. Broome remained 

 until he was eighteen, in 1830. In this year he lost his 

 father; two years later, he and his mother went to live at 

 Chelsea, thence he went to be the pupil of the curate at Swaffliam 

 Prior in Cambridgeshire, with whom he read until he went up to 

 the University. He was entered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 

 October 23rd, 1832, and took bis degree in January 1836. In 

 the April following he married Charlotte Herman, fourth 

 daughter of the Rev. Jobn Bush, of Chelsea. 



A few months after his marriage he removed to the neighbour- 

 hood of Bath, then for nine years at Clifton, where he became 

 acquainted with Thwaites, afterwards of Peradeniya, and finally 

 settled at Elmhurst, in November 1848, where he remained to 

 the end of his life. 



Mr. Broome's studies in Natural History began whilst he was 

 reading for Holy Orders at SwafFham Prior, but were not fully 

 prosecuted witli steadfast and earnest aim until conscientious 

 scruples had caused him to relinquish all intention of entering the 

 Cliurch. His services to local botany have been fully recounted by 

 his life-long friend, the father of the Liunean Society, the Rev. 

 Leonard Blomefield, in an address to the Bath Pield Club, 

 December 8th, 1886 ; whilst Mr. Greorge Murray has testified in 

 the current number of the ' Journal of Botany ' to the esteem in 

 which Mr. Broome's painstaking and accurate work is held by 

 mycologists. During forty years he was closely associated with 

 the Eev. M. J. Berkeley. Mr. Broome's last paper was published 

 in our ' Transactions ' after his death, which took place in London. 

 He regularly visited his Essex property at stated times, and last 

 November he was staying at Wood's Hotel, Purnival's Inn. On 

 the evening of Friday, 12th November, after a tiring day in wet 

 weather in Essex, he came back to his hotel as usual. Shortly 

 after retiring, he received some distressing private intelligence, 

 was seized with a paralytic attack, and did not resume conscious- 

 ness, passing away at 11 p.m. on Monday, 15th November, 1S86. 

 He leaves a widow and family, the eldest being Vicar of Hurst, 

 Twyford. Mr. Broome was elected a Fellow, February 1, 1866. 



Sir Charles James Fox Bunbuey, Bart., F.E.S., F.G.S., was 

 born at Messina in the year 1809, and was the son of Sir Henry 

 Bunbury by his first wife, a niece of Charles James Fox. He 

 early acquired a love for Botany, for on leaving Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, at the end of 1837, he went with Sir George Napier 

 to the Cape for rare plants ; the result being published in 

 Hooker's ' Journal of Botany,' and in 1818 there appeared the 

 ' Journal of a Eesidence at the Cape of Grood Hope.' After his 

 return, Mr. Bunbury, in 1844, married Frances, second daughter 



