352 OBITUARY. 



species, was also intended as a catalogue of* Mr. Tliwaites's dis- 

 tributed collection of Ceylon plants, sets of which, under the 

 initials " C. P.," are found in most large herbaria. These sets vary 

 in extent, and so, of course, in value ; a large series is in the 

 DeCandolle Herbarium, and another in that of the British Museum. 

 He made also large collections of Fungi ; Messrs. Berkeley and 

 Broome, in their " Enumeration of Ceylon Fungi," published in the 

 ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' mention that " more than twelve 

 hundred numbers " were transmitted to them by Mr. Thwaites. 

 Of his official work in connection with the Peradeniya Gardens it 

 is not necessary to speak in these pages. In 1867 his health 

 began to fail, and he thought of returning home, but a renewal 

 of strength caused him to abandon this project ; indeed he never 

 left the island fi'om the time of his arrival there. He died at 

 Kandy on the lltli of September, his funeral being attended by 

 all the members of the staff of the Peradeniya Gardens, and by 

 the principal inhabitants of the town. Mr. Thwaites was elected 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1854 ; the Imperial L. C. 

 Academy ' Naturae Curiosorum ' conferred the degree of Ph.D. 

 upon him in 1864 ; he was made C.M.G. in 1878 ; and was also a 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Society. Sir J. D. Hooker dedicated the 

 genus Kendrickia (Melastomace*), to him in 1865. A portrait of 

 Mr. Thwaites is given in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' for 1874 

 (part i.), p. 438. 



Henry Reeks was born at Standen near Huugerford, Berks, on 

 March 15th, 1838 ; during the greater part of his life he lived at 

 the Manor House, Thruxton, Audover, where he died on the 20th 

 February, 1882. In 1866 he went to Newfoundland to study its 

 birds, but was so severely frost-bitten, at a great distance from sur- 

 gical aid, that he had the courage to amputate his own toes, and so 

 to preserve the remainder of his feet. Whilst in this country he 

 compiled a list of its flowering plants, which was read before the 

 Linnean Society (of which he was a Fellow) in 1869 : a note from 

 his pen on the more remarkable of these will be found in this Journal 

 for 1871 (p. 16); he also contributed to our pages a note on the 

 occun-ence of Falcaria Tlivini in Hants (Journ. Bot., 1874, p. 279). 

 He also catalogued the flowering plants, ferns and mosses observed 

 in the parish of Eastwoodhay, his results forming a part of the Flora 

 published in the Report of the Newbury District Field Club for 

 1870-71. The remainder of his works were zoological. 



The Rev. Thomas Fitz Arthur Ravenshaw, late Rector of Pew- 

 sey, Wilts, died on Sept. 26th, in London, aged 53. Mr. Raven- 

 shaw was author of ' A new list of the Flowering Plants and Ferns 

 growing wild in the County of Devon,' published in 1860, which 

 was re-issued, with a supplement, in 1872. He also contributed 

 papers — on the botany of Wells, Somerset ; Pewsey, Wilts ; and 

 Loch Moidart, West Highlands — to the ' Phytologist ' for 1857-59. 

 Mr. Ravenshaw' s knowledge of British plants was general rather 

 than critical, and many of the records in the * New List ' have 

 been set aside by more recent authors. 



