288 OBITUAEY. 



Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South Wales (vol. vii., 

 part 1). — J/E. Tenison-Woods, * On various deposits of Fossil 

 Plants in Queensland.' — W. Mitten, * New species and localities of 

 Polynesian Mosses' {JHstichojjhylliDiicapilhitum, Mitt., EndotricheUa 

 pukhra, Mitt., AcantJiocladium Strawjei, Mitt. & F. v. M., A. pedun- 

 cuIatiDii, Mitt., Hypnodendron palmeiuu , Mitt., H. Chalmersii, Mitt.) 

 — C. Kalclibrenner, ' New Australian Fungi.' 



The Rev. W. S. Hore, a Devonshire botanist who was well 

 known among the' British botanists of the last generation, and who 

 died at Basingstoke in March last, demands some notice in these 

 pages. In consequence of feeble health he spent the later years of 

 his life in retirement at Barnstaple; but his cultivated mind, which 

 was well stored with knowledge in various branches of natural 

 history, rendered his company both entertaining and instructive, 

 and consequently he was much valued by those persons who had 

 the privilege of his personal acquaintance. He was born at 

 Plymouth in the year 1808. His taste for natural history was 

 developed while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and he could not 

 fail to derive benefit from the acquaintance and friendship of the 

 men of that time at Cambridge, such as Prof. Henslow, Prof. 

 C. C. Babington, and Mr. Darwin ; Prof. Babington gi-aduated 

 in the same year, and Mr. Darwm two years after. Mr. Hore 

 held curacies successively at Saltash, in Cornwall ; at Combmartin, 

 in North Devon ; several j^ears at Stoke Damerel (Devonport), 

 in South Devon ; and at Norwich. He was subsequently, in 

 1850, i^referred to the vicarage of St. Clement's, Oxford, and 

 in 1855 to the living of Shebbear with Sheepwash, Devon. 

 His places of residence being thus repeatedly shifted over diverse 

 parts of England, he enjoyed and used good opportunities for 

 extending his practical intimacy with his favourite branches of 

 natural history. We find that, in 1841, when the British 

 Association for the first time met at Plymouth, Mr. Hore con- 

 tributed a " List of Plants found in Devonshire and Cornwall 

 not mentioned by Jones in the ' Flora Devoniensis ' " ; this list was 

 afterwards inserted in the ' Phytologist ' (i., 160-163). In the 

 same publication (vol. ii., pp. 239, 240) he gave a paper on the 

 discovery of Urobanche lunetltystea, Thuill., at Whitsand Bay, in 

 Cornwall. Mr. Hore's name cannot fail to be remembered by 

 British botanists in connection with certain rare plants, as for 

 example, Trifolium MoJinerii; and his discovery of Lz.st^/Y< cordatam 

 North Devon, in 1843, is very interesting, as bearing on the local 

 distribution of plants. The late Prof. Harvey, in 1855, dedicated 

 to him the genus Horea among Algcie, and added the following 

 words: — "The name is given in honour of Eev. W. S. Hore, of 

 St. Clement's Oxford, an excellent algologist, and ardent and suc- 

 cessful explorer of the Algc'e of Plymouth Sound, &c., to whom I 

 am indebted for large numbers of beautifully preserved specimens 

 of rare British Alt(ie." 



