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him also in his lecturing, and had a great influence in gathering 

 round him large numbers of disciples. The foreign votaries of 

 science who have visited Upsala during the lasty forty years of his 

 life seldom neglected making the personal acquaintance of the 

 celebrated botanist. His lively interest in his science and his 

 affectionate regard for every one who pursued it, procured him the 

 veneration and love of all, and those who participated in a more 

 confidential intercourse with him cannot praise their good fortune 

 enough in having had the happiness of the acquaintance of a man 

 so, noble and good as Fries. 



His enthusiastic love of his science followed him as it were 

 from the cradle to the grave. He continued his useful scientific 

 labours, even as an author, during the last years of his life. In 

 his eightieth year he published a new and improved edition of his 

 extensive work, ' Hymenomycetes Europsei,' and about a week 

 before his death he completed an essay for a foreign periodical. 

 Far even into his last hours he contemplated with interest and 

 comprehended clearly the figures in the second number of Mr. M. 

 C. Cooke's ' Mycographia,' which had arrived that day, and said 

 that some of the Fungi were unknown to him, but others known. 

 " England," he said, "has more numerous and more remarkable 

 Discomijcetes than Sweden, but as regards Hymenomycetes we take 

 by far the lead." 



He died on the evening of the 8th of February, 1878. 



Our portrait is from a photograph by Osti, of Upsala, and is 

 the last that was taken of Fries. 



A. N. LUNDSTROM. 



EEPOET ON A COLLECTION OF FEENS MADE IN THE 

 NOETH OF BOENEO BY Mr. F. W. BUEBIDGE. 



By J. G. Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



Messrs. Veitch and Son have placed in my hands, for working 

 out, a collection of Ferns made by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, whilst 

 exploring for them in the north-west corner of Borneo. The 

 following is a complete list of the species gathered, which were all 

 obtained in the neighbourhood of Labuan and Kina-balu. To the 

 new species I have prefixed numbers, showing the position in which 

 they fall, according to the sequence followed in our ' Synopsis 

 Filicum' ; and I have marked with a "^^ the names of those which, 

 so far as I am aware, have not been gathered in the island before. 

 I may mention that a complete catalogue of the Ferns of Borneo 

 was published in 1876 by Baron Vincent de Cesati, with a special 

 account, with figures of some of the novelties, of those gathered by 

 Professor Beccari. 



''''Gleichenia circinata, Sw. var. bornecnsis, Baker. A stiff erect- 

 growing form, with the final bipinnate divisions unusually long 

 (sometimes a foot in length), the leafy portion between the primary 

 and secondary forkings also unusually long, the rachises glabrous, 



