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meeting was followed by many others in the course of the 

 succeeding years. Mr. tStratton, by his energy and enthusiasm, 

 was recognised as the centre of botanic work in the Isle of Wight. 

 About 1880 he began a local flora in tlie pages of a Newport 

 newspaper, saying that it would be the last local flora of ' the 

 Island,' as Mr. Townsend's Hampshire flora would take the whole 

 of the island in its scope. Nevertheless, at a later period, in 

 1900, he published a 20-page pamphlet, 'The Wild Flowers of 

 the Isle of Wight.' His herbarium included his alpine collec- 

 tions: he delighted to get into Switzerland and to wander upon the 

 mountains, and forget the tedium of office drudgery. His last con- 

 tribution to the Isle of Wight botany was his " Flowering Plants 

 and their allies " in Morey's ' Guide to the Natural History of the 

 Isle of Wight,' 1909, forming pages 126-199, with 3 plates. 



After some months of declining health, Mr. Stratton became 

 seriously ill only a few days before his death, which took place 

 during the night of Monday, 4th December, 1916, passing quietly 

 away in his sleep ; the cause was heart failure following influenza. 

 He leaves a ^^•ido\v and a large circle of sons and daughters — 

 eleven children were born to him — and the universal regret of a 

 still wider circle of friends who will ever cherish the recollection 

 of a most charming and loveable character. [B. D. J.] 



[Since the Obituary Notice of Count Solms was printed in our 

 ' Proceedings'' last year, the following bibliography has become 

 available, and is here given with corrections and amplification 

 from that published by Dr. Jost. — Gen. Sec.'] 



List of Solms- Lauhaclis ■writings. 



1. 1863. Ueber Orohanche Buekiana Koch. Verh. hot. Vereins Branden- 



burg, V. 53-58, 241. 



2. 1865. I)e Lathrcece generis positione systematica. Diss, inaug., 



Berotlni ; pp. 42. 



3. 1867. Ueber die Fruchtentwickelung von Batracliospennum. Bot. 



Zeit. XXV. 161-167, 169-171. 



4. — — • Ueber Vaucheria dichotoma. lb, 361-366. 



5. 1868. Ueber eigenthiimliche Einlagerungen oxals. Kalkes. Sitzb. 



naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1867, 15 okt. "Bot. Zeit. xxvi. 148. 



6. Ueber den Bau und die Entwicklung der Ernahrungsorgane 



parasitischer Phanerogamen. Pringsbeim, Jahrb. wiss. 

 Bot. vi. 509-638. 



7. Tentameu bryo-geograpliie Algarvise, regni Lusitani provinciae. 



Habilitationsschrift. Halis ; pp. 45. 



8. 1869. Ueber die herbstliche PilKkrankheit der Stubenfliege. Sitzb. 



nat. Ges. Halle, x. 1869, 37-38. 



9. Vorlaufiire Mitteilung iiber den Baa der Gruppe der Lennoaceae. 



Bot. Zeit. xxvii. 38-40. 



10. F. Cavolinis Beobachtungen iiber Cytinus Hypocistis. lb. 185- 



190. 



11. 1870. [Bericht iiber eine] Reise im siidliche Portugal. Sitzb. nat. 



Ges. Halle, xi. 7-8. 



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