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death, in January 1862, must have been deeply felt by one who 

 had survived so many of the scientific friends of his early days. 



In 1850 appeared his ' Tourist's Flora,' a work in the prepara- 

 tion of which he had been engaged during many previous years, 

 and which, embracing as it does a much larger portion of Europe 

 than had been included by any previous author of recent date, has 

 become an almost indispensable vade onecwn of the English 

 traveller on the Continent. " Few books," observes Sir "William 

 Hooker, in the ' Journal of Botany,' " were more required for the 

 use of the many English travellers who make the ordinary Euro- 

 pean tours, in their own country or on the Continent, and who 

 desire an acquaintance with the many vegetable productions they 

 see around them, than one like the present ; and few men are more 

 competent to prepare such a work than Mr. Joseph Woods, a very 

 considerable portion of whose long life has been devoted to travel- 

 ling, at home and abroad, with this special object in view. He is 

 familiar with most of the plants described in this volume, from 

 having studied them in their native localities ; and he has taken 

 great pains to give the essential characters of the genera and 

 species in as few words as possible." 



Down almost to the day of his decease, which occurred on the 

 9th of January last, he was steadily occupied in the preparation 

 of a second edition of this Avork, for which he had collected an 

 ample store of materials. These, together with his herbarium, 

 have now become the property of Mr. F. Townseud, of Leamington. 

 Among his varied attainments, he was ah adrau-able artist, and 

 had gradually accumulated an extensive series of sketches, which, 

 even to the close of his life, were remai"kable for their accuracy 

 and for the firmness of the pencilling. Many of the latest of these 

 sketches were made in connexion with a revision of the perplexing 

 genus Mubus, upon which he had abeady published something in 

 the ' Phytologist ' (new ser., vol. i.), and on which he was occupied 

 during great part of the past summer and autumn. It thus proved 

 to be the last of his botanical labours, as the revision of the allied 

 genus Bosa had been his first. 



In addition to the above-mentioned Synopsis of the British 

 species of S,osa, which appeared in the 12th volume of our 

 ' Transactions,' the following papers were communicated by him 

 to this Society, and published in successive volumes of the ' Trans- 

 actions,' ' Journal,' &c. : — 



1. Observations on the Species of Fedia, in 1835. — Trans- 

 actions, vol. xvii. 



