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must have been great pain to him, but he never flinched if he 

 might increase our knowledge of the science in which he was 

 interested. He never sought recognition, and in many respects 

 he was averse from it. He never liked teaching, and he seldom 

 lectured anywhere. Like a true scientilic man, he cared not for 

 himself hut sim|)ly for the advancement of the subject which he 

 Io\ed. He was elected a Foreign Member on the 0th May, 1H75. 



[J. Stanley Ctabdineb.] 



AViLLiAM Hadden liEEBY, F.L.S., F.E.M.S., was born on June 9, 

 184U, and died on January 4 of the present year. He was in the 

 banking business, from which he retired only a few months before 

 his death. From an early time he devoted his leisure hours to the 

 study of British i^otany, in which he acquired soon a reputation 

 for acuteness and great critical knowledge. He added a consider- 

 able number of new forms to the ' London Catalogue,' and deposited 

 some of his critical gatherings in the herbaria at the British 

 Museum and at Kew. His publications in the shape of short 

 articles and notes were mostly ])ublished in the volumes of the 

 'Journal of Botany' for 1879-1807 ajul for 1908. He was also 

 engaged in the preparation of a Flora of Surrey, Lack of leisure, 

 how ever, compelled him finally to entrust the work to other hands ; 

 but he wrote the Botany article for the Victoria History of the 

 County of Surrey (1902). His Surrey collections as well as those 

 made in Shetland, which he visited repeatedly, are to be jjlaced in 

 the Horniman Museum, in the botanical de|)artment founded by 

 Mr. A. O. Hume. He was elected an Associate of the Society in 

 1887 and became a Fellow in 1890. A portrait of him was 

 published in the' Journal of Botany " for May 1910. [O. Staff.] 



Edward Clapton was born at Stamford, 28th September, 1830, 

 died at his house " Tower Croft " on the 28th September, 1909, 

 and was buried at Stamford on the 2nd October. He was the 

 second son of his parents, and educated at the Stamford Grammar 

 School, afterwards entering at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1850, after 

 an apprenticeship to a local practitioner from the age of 10 to 20. 

 In 1857 he became M.D. Lond. and F.K.C.S. : in the same year 

 he was appointed xlssislant Physician and Lecturer on Botanj' at 

 St. Thomas's Hospital, and later on he lectured on Materia Medica. 

 In 1858 he became Member, and 17 years later Fellow of the Koyal 

 College of Ph)"sicians. 



Shortly before his death he presented to the INIuseum of the 

 Koyal College of Surgeons two branches and a bundle of twigs from 

 the plane tree in the island of Cos, under the shade of which 

 Hippocrates lectured on Medicine from a marble seat, still in 

 existence : the tree is believed to be considerably more than 2000 

 years old. 



He was elected a Fellow, 21st November, 18G1. [B. D. J.] 



