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OBITUARY NOTICES. 

 Algernon Sidney Bicknell was the sou of Elanan Bicknell, of 

 Heme Hill, Surrey, a well-known collector of pictures, and Jjorn 

 on the 9th October, lSli'2. Possessed of ample means, he gave 

 his attention to botany, astronomy, and alpine exploration, 

 travelling much and never happier tlian when in such scenes as 

 the vast forests of the An)azon Jiiver. 



At a later period he specially interested himself in fungi, and 

 collected a good library bearing on that group. He showed an 

 extensive series of fungi about the year 1887 at the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society, at that time at South Kensington. He was 

 a member of several scientiHo Societies, amongst them the 

 Woolhope Club and the lioyal (xeographical Society, but he 

 seems never to have published any accouut of his travels or 

 researches. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 

 iipth December, 1877, and died at Brighton after an operation, on 

 the 26th October, 1911, shortly after completing his 79th year. 



[b] D. J.] 



Haiuiy Bolus was born in Nottingham on April 28th, 1834, 

 the son of Joseph Bolus, a business man of that town. Through 

 the master of his school he became connected with AVilliam 

 Kensitt, a merchant of (xrahamsroMii, with whom he served as 

 apprentice from 1850-1852, having landed at Port Elizabeth 

 on March 28th, 1850. From Grahamstown he went to Port 

 Elizabeth as book-keej)erin a mercantile house, and, at the end of 

 1855, after a short visit to England, returned to South Africa to 

 Graaff-Eeinet, where he spent the succeeding nineteen years, 

 acting for a short time as Secretary to the Midland Fire 

 Insurance and Trust Company. In 1874 he left Graaff-Eeinet 

 and joined his brother, a stock-broker in Cape Town,* retiring 

 from business in 1895. He died at Oxted, Suri-ey, on May 25th, 

 1911, soon after his arrival on what Mas to be the last of his 

 many visits to England, and was buried in the churchyard of the 

 village. 



Although no doubt interested from eai'ly youth in the observa- 

 tion of natural objects and phenomena, his connection with 

 botany may be said to date from 1862, when he attended a short 

 course of public lectures on botany, given by Prof. F. Guthrie, 

 who the year before had been appointed to the newly founded 

 Graaff-Eeinet College. His friendship with Guthrie furthei'ed his 

 botanical inclinations, and the loss in 1805 of his eldest son and 

 the desire for relief from the sad blow, drove him into the 

 arms of the science in which his interests centred lienceforth. For 

 years his activity in this domain was confined to collecting and 

 observations in the held, and studies in his own herbarium. 

 Thorough and methodical habits and a keen eye not only helped 

 him to build up a valuable collection of his own, but also made 

 him a most useful contributor to his numerous correspondents, 

 whose inquiries and wishes he always met with great liberality. 



