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Society in 1889. On his reaching his sixtieth year he contem- 

 plated retiring, and came home on furlough in April 1907, staying 

 for a few weeks in London, where he had an attack of blackwater 

 fever. Eeeovering from this, he spent a couple of months in the 

 Lake district, closing his trip A^ith a fortnight with a nephew in 

 Kendal. Lea\ing that place for Morecambe, on the day after his 

 arrival, October 12th, 1907, he seemed in his usual health in the 

 morning ; in the afternoon a slight attack of fever set in, and he 

 retired to bed, but shortly afterwards he expired. He was buried 

 at Kendal the following Wednesday. 



The genus Baronia, of the natural family of Anacardiacese, was 

 dedicated to our deceased Fellow by Mr. J. Gr. Baker, in 1882. 



[B. D. J.] 



Edavaed ARTnuR Lio>'EL Battees's death on the 11th August, 

 1907, came as a painful surprise to his friends, who knew that he 

 had only the month before removed from Hertfordshire into 

 Buckinghamshire, at Gerrard's Cross. 



He was the fifth son of Mr. George Batters of Enfield, and 

 was born on the 26th December, 18G0 ; he received his education 

 at King's College School, London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 

 graduating in Arts, afterwards taking the degree of LL.B.,and being 

 called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. Having early acquired a love 

 for natural history, and not being dependent upon his profession, 

 he came to study Algae with keen interest, and remained constant 

 to that department of botany to the end of his life. 



In 1888 he published his first paper, "A description of three 

 new Marine Algae," in our ' Journal,' Botany, xxiv. pp. 450-453, 

 plate 18, and in the next year brought out his account of the 

 Marine Algae of Berwick-upon-Tweed, where much of his time 

 had been spent as a child ; and afterwards, with Mr. E. M. Holmes, 

 he prepared a list of British Marine Algae, which came out in the 

 'Annals of Botany" in 1890, pp. 63-107; the following year he 

 issued in the ' Journal of Botany ' his " Handlist of the Algae oP 

 the Clyde Sea Area," with map. 



In 1892 he became associated with 'Grevillea,' and till 1894, 

 when that journal was discontinued, he had charge of the Algo- 

 logical portion. His most noteworthy contribution to science was 

 his " Catalogue of the British Marine Alga*, being a list of all the 

 species of Seaweeds known to occur on the shores of the British 

 Islands, with the localities where they are found," which was 

 issued as a Supplement to the ' Journal of Botany ' for 1902, and 

 consists of 107 pages in addition to the titlepage. This was 

 meant as the forerunner of a treatise which was expected from 

 him, but was only begun ; his extraordinary knowledge of the 

 facts, which only needed to be reduced to writing, is wholly lost, 

 as he was accustomed to rely upon a retentive and well-stored 

 niemcnw, rather than upon note?. 



His herbarium is believed to contain more than 13,000 sp(!ci- 

 mens, British and foreign, the former constituting about three- 

 fourths of the whole. 



