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almost impossible to apportion their relative share in it, althougli 

 he seems to have been the " predominant partner." 



For many years Henry Groves was a keen field-botanist, and 

 his own and his brother's contributions to Townsend's ' Elora 

 of Hampshire ' were as numerous as they are valuable. It was 

 in those days that they discovered and described the remarkable 

 *' rice grass," Spartina Townseiidii, the spreading o£ which assumed 

 subsequently such astonishing proportions. The work, however, 

 tor which Henry Groves, along with his brother, was best 

 known to this country as well as abroad, was on the Characeae. 

 "A Eeview of the British Characeae" (1880) followed by a 

 series of "Notes on British Characeae" (1881, 1883, 18^84, 

 1885, 1886, 1887, 1890, 1895, 1898), all in the 'Journal of 

 Botany,' a beautifully prepai-ed ' Characeae Britannicse Exsiccatae,' 

 of which the first fascicle appeared in 1892 and the second in 

 1900, and finally a contribution to Urban's ' Symbolae Antillanae ' 

 dealing with the A¥est Indian Characeae, were the fruits of 

 the joint labours of tiie brothers in this department. British 

 botanists are also under a debt to Henry Groves for his share 

 in the preparation of tlie ninth edition of Babington's Manual ot" 

 British Botany ' (1904). Tied down by the limitations imposed 

 upon them, the brothers had to lea\'e the book as regards plan, 

 nomenclature, and descriptions much as they found it in the 

 author's interleaved copy. Nevertheless, they were able to intro- 

 duce a considerable amount of additional matter, thus contributing 

 largely to the value of the edition. Another field in which Henry 

 ■Groves interested himself was that of botanical nomenclature, as 

 is shown by a number of articles in the ' Journal of Botany.' It 

 may finally be added that he was also a draughtsman of con- 

 siderable skill. 



Henry Groves joined the Linnean Society in 1892. He served 

 on the Council from 1899 to 1902, and again from 1911 to his 

 death ; and in 1910 he acted as one of the Society's delegates at 

 the International Botanical Congress at Brussels. 



His common-sense, practical experience, and independence of 

 character made him a most valuable member of committees, just 

 as his frankness, allied with discretion and kindness, won him the 

 esteem and affection of his friends. 



He was also a Trustee of the South London Botanical 

 Institute. [O. S.] 



William Thomas Hindmaesh, who died at his house, Alnbauk, 

 near Alnwick, on the 27th April, 1913, was by profession a 

 solicitor, but strongly drawn to the study of living plants. In 

 his garden, about 4 miles from the north-eastern coast, he suc- 

 cessfully cultivated alpine and Japanese plants. He was the 

 first in this country to flower Primula deorum, A-'elen., and was 

 also very fortunate in cultivating the two species of Shortia, 

 S. galacifolia and S. ^miflora : these he described in a paper 

 in the Journal of the Horticultural Society in 1905.' 



