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minster Review,' the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 

 the ' Philosopbieal Magazine,' and otlier periodicals. 



In 186S Mr. Dallas again returned to London, having been 

 appointed Assistant-Secretary to the Geological Society, a post 

 whose arduous duties he continued to discharge with uncommon 

 tact and ability for twenty-two years, until struck down by 

 paralysis a few days before his death, which took place on the 

 29th May, 1890. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1849. 



A man of brilliant attainments and of rare geniality and kind- 

 ness of disposition, he was ever ready to help and advise all who 

 came to him for counsel. Few men, indeed, have had such a 

 power as Dallas had for gaining the hearts of those who came 

 into contact with him, and his memory will long be held in 

 affectionate regard by all who had tlie privilege to call bim 

 friend. 



Henet Gthoves was the youngest son of Richard Groves, 

 druggist, of Weymouth, Dorset, where he was born in 1835, and 

 educated, mainly in London, at a priA'ate school. He was 

 apprenticed to his father, and, on completing his term, studied 

 in the Pharmaceutical Society's school till 1856, when he went 

 to be with Messrs. Bell & Co., after which be spent three years 

 Avith Mr. C. Delacre, of Brussels. On his return home he 

 assisted his father; but hearing of an opening in Florence he 

 went thither and took the business which had been begun by 

 Mr. Frazer at 15 Yia Borgognissanti, and for nearly 30 years 

 his pharmacy there became a resort for English visitors and 

 residents. 



Mr. Groves's relaxation lay in the investigation of the flora 

 of the country of which he had become an inhabitant, and his 

 holidays were devoted to tours in the less known parts of the 

 Italian peninsula, undertaken in the height of summer, when 

 Florence is almost deserted by its visitors. As an example of 

 these trips may be cited his paper on the botany of the coast of 

 Japygia, which was issued in our Journal, vol. xxi., in 1885. 

 He bad married a Genoese lady in 1875, who thoroughly entered 

 into his pursuits, and cheerfully faced the discomforts of roughing 

 it in these little accessible districts, where shelter for the night 

 was frequently to be found only in some shepherd's hut or 

 some dry cave. As the fruit of these excursions ]\Ir. Groves 

 amassed a large collection of dried plants, and these have been 

 devised to a Tuscan botanical society. Besides these he wrote a 

 few papers on topics connected with his own calling, such as on 

 the Florentine Orris, the Italian Saffron, and the local Tuscan 

 popular remedies. 



About ten years since his health became somewhat impaired, 

 followed not long since by a paralytic attack, from which he had 

 partially recovered, when a second stroke occurred on March 1st 



