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assumed an edoteric character, presuiniug ou an almost equal 

 kuovvledge of plants to that possessed by the author. The 

 state of his herbarium is also quite uukuowu, for during long 

 years past no botanist has been permitted to have even a glimpse 

 of the collection. 



At liis last visit to this country lleichenbach was looking for- 

 ward to his retirement from the professorial chair, with prolonged 

 visits to Kew, and the preparation of a projected 'Index E-eichen- 

 liachianus,' which was to give a much needed guide to the widely- 

 scattered descriptions of species and varieties; but this last, if 

 even begun, is unfinished. 



At the Ghent Exhibition of 1888 it was noticed he was 

 looking unwell, and had shrunk from his accustomed portliness ; 

 nevertheless the news of his death, on the 6th of May, 1889, at 

 Hamburg, came as a surprise to everyone in this country. By 

 iiis death a gaj) is made wliich no one man is ever likely to fill. 



He was elected a Foreign Member of tiiis Society on Mav 1, 

 1879. 



[Since the foregoing was drawn up, intelligence has reached us 

 of the testamentary disposition of his herbarium. Eeichenbach 

 directs his collections to be offered to the Vienna Museum on 

 condition that they be kept intact in sealed boxes for the full 

 term of twenty-five years from the date of iiis death. If declined 

 on these terms, a similar oft'er is to be made in succession to TJp- 

 sala. Harvard, and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Thus of three 

 great botanic centres, Berlin and London (British Museum and 

 Kew) are quite shut out, and Paris only has the fourth chance. 

 The Vienna Muiieum has accepted the bequest on these con- 

 ditions.] 



Hexry Stevkxsox was born at Norwich on the 80th March, 

 18:^3, and died there ou the 18th August, 1SS8, aged fifty-eight. 

 As pro])rietor of ' The Norfolk Chronicle,' his life was devoted 

 to literary work. Secretary for some time of the jN"orfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society and President in 1871-72, he was 

 a frequent contributor to the ' Transactions ' of that Society, 

 ' The Ibis,' 'The Zoologist,' and other ])eriodicals ; he was well 

 known as an accurate observer of Nature and an able writer on the 

 haunts and habits of the animals he loved to study. He was the 

 autlior of an important work on the ' Birds of Norfolk,' in three 

 viijuiiies which ai)peared at intervals in the years 18GG, 1870, and 

 1890. The third volume was edited after his death by his friend. 

 Thomas Southwell, of Norwich, and contains an extended memoir 

 of hiui. 



He was elected a I'ellow of this Society 3rd November, 1864; 

 and the Society owes to his generosity the portrait of the late 

 Lady Smith (wife of Sir James Smith, our first President) taken in 

 lier 100th year, which now haugs in the Library. 



