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Pigeon's ' Handbook of Shrewsbury,' and he was connected with 

 the Caradoc Field Club, as botanic referee from 1S73 up to the 

 time of his death, when he was Vice-President. 



He prepared and issued four fasciculi of ' Elvellacei bi'itan- 

 nici,' from 1874 to 1881. His contributions published in our 

 issues were : — " On a new species of Helvella (//. californica , 

 Phillips)," Transactions, ser. 11. Bot. i. (1880) p. 423, pi. 48 ; 

 " A Kevision of the Genus Vihrissea" ih. ii. (1881) pp. 1-10, 

 pis. 1, 2 ; and "Some Observations on the 'Breaking' of the 

 Shropshire Meres," which came out in our Proceedings, 1881-82, 

 p. 2y. This last was amplified in an account issued in the 

 seventh volume of the ' Transactions ' of the JShropsliire Archeo- 

 logical Society in 1884 ; and the subject was again taken up, read 

 before the Cai-adoc Field Club, and published in ' The Midland 

 Naturalist,' with two coloured plates, in 1893. His most extensive 

 work, and only volume, was ' A Manual of British Discomy- 

 cetes ' in the International Science Sez'ies in 1887 ; other papers 

 were contributed to the local societies named, and with Dr. Plou- 

 right he Avew up two papers on " New and JRare British Fungi." 

 which appeared in ' Grevillea ' in 1873-74. Always fond of 

 antiquarian research, latterly he gave nearly the whole of his 

 leisure to that study, but preserved his interest in botany to the 

 last. A short time before his death, his health failed somewhat ; 

 an attack of heart-trouble had appai'ently yielded to medical 

 treatment, but in the same night he passed quietly away during 

 sleep. He was buried amidst tokens of universal mourning on 

 the part of friends and fellow-citizens. 



Quiet and unassuming, he did an immense amount of work, 

 not only in botany and archaeology, but in more purely local 

 requirements, as at the Museum, on the public documents, and 

 similar work, at the same time shunning publicity. His con- 

 nection with the Liuuean Society began 3rd June, 1875, and he 

 was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 



The genus of Fungi Pliillipsia was established in our Journal 

 in 1881, by the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, in honour of our deceased 

 Fellow. [B. D. J.] 



EiCHAED RiMMEE,who died at his residence, Dalawoodie, Dumfries, 

 on 19th August, 1906, was a keen all-round naturalist, but 

 he paid special attention to the Mollusca of Britain. He was 

 elected Fellow of our Society on 1st May, 1879, and in the 

 following year he brought out a small volume on his favourite 

 subject, entitled 'The Land and Fresh- water Shells of the British 

 Islands,' London, 1880, 8vo., of more than 200 pages and a 

 dozen plates, some of which were produced by pliotograj)hv, one 

 of the earliest applications of that art to malacologic illustration. 

 In 1887 he removed from Westboume Crescent, Hyde Park, to 

 8t. Albans, and after two years in that town he migrated to 

 Dumfries, where he ended his days, at the age of 79. [B. D. J.l 



