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One well-known work of his, namely, his ' Clavis Agaricinorum,' 

 was written for tlie Woolhope Club, and reprinted in the ' Journal 

 of Botany,' and as a separate pamphlet; it was based upon the 

 coloration of their spores : in 1874 the Woolhope Club made him 

 a presentation of plate for his labours on the higher fungi. To 

 this club and its working members he was greatly attached, and 

 the menu of each annual dinner was for many yeai's enlivened 

 by the humoi'ous drawings from his pencil aptly fitting the 

 occasion. 



Shortly after his withdrawal to Dunstable he illustrated the 

 genera and subgenera of the Hymenomycetes for Dr. Stevenson's 

 ' British Fungi,' and in 1891 he was responsible for the 

 supplementary volume to Berkeley's ' Outlines of British Fungi.' 

 A task of long continuance was the series of water-colour 

 drawings for the public gallery at the Natural History Museum, 

 of the British larger Fvmgi, such as the Basidiomycetes, 

 Discomycetes, and the Tuberoideee ; this occupied nine years, 

 and supplementary work upon it continued for some years later, 

 at different times. 



The year 1893 was marked by his publication, the ' Guide 

 Book to Sowerby's Models of British Fungi ' for the British 

 Museum, he having previously painted the clay models themselves, 

 now set up in eases in the public galleries. His services to 

 gardening by his writings on Fungi were recognized in 1907 

 by the award of the Veitchian Medal by the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society ; the year following he issued his ' Synopsis of British 

 Basidiomycetes' for the Trustees of the British Museum, and in 

 successive years, ' Field and cultivated Mushrooms and their 

 varieties, and Poisonous or worthless Fungi often mistaken for 

 Mushrooms,' and in 1910, ' Edible and Poisonous Fungi,' two 

 large coloured sheets for exhibition at Cromwell Eoad. These 

 works flowed readily from his long experience as a fungus-eater ; 

 in one case at least he gave a graphic account of poisoning 

 symptoms following a rash experiment, which he published in 

 the ' Journal of Horticulture.' 



Besides those of botanical import, our late Fellow was busy on 

 archaeological pursuits all liis life, and by the end of 1910 he had 

 found 1043 palaeolithic implements in the Thames Valley, and 

 800 in other districts ; nearly all are in public or private 

 collections. He died as previously stated at Dunstable, aged 82, 

 and was buried in the cemetery there ; he had been a Fellow 

 of the Society since 5th March, 1868. [B. D. J.J 



By the passing of Mr. Kichard Spiees Standen at the full age 

 of 82, the Society has lost one of tlie diminishing number of 

 all-round naturalists who, half-a-century ago, were numerous, but 

 at the present time, when specialization has become necessary to 

 the strenuous worker, are few. 



He was born at Oxford, 11th October, 1835, and educated at 

 King's College, London. He spent his life in business until forty- 



