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President. Many of these papers may be thought to deal with 

 small matters, yet every one is elaborated with the care and 

 completeDess of an important treatise, the most pmictilious attention 

 to correctness being a marked feature in everything he nndertook. 

 He will, however, be longest known by the active part he took m 

 rigidly carrying out the law of priority in nomenclature, a law 

 admitted by all botanists, yet, strangely enough, but little acted on. 

 Lindberg, however, went in for it thoroughly, and brought on 

 himself no little odium as an innovator ; his example, however, has 

 not been in vain, for both in this country and America some of the 

 most learned botanists have taken the same line of action with 

 respect to flowering plants, and have thus commenced to lighten 

 the intolerable burden that would sooner or later have to be dealt 

 with. I believe he had been for years engaged on a synonymic list 

 of mosses, with references to every known publication, but probably 

 waiting for the ever-receding goal of 'completeness,' daily becoming 

 more unattainable by the ever-widening field of literature, it has 

 not yet seen the hght. 



Amongst his more important papers may be mentioned, ' Torf- 

 mossornas byggnad Utbredning och systematiska Uppstallning,' 

 ' De Tortulis et cet. Trichostomaceis eur.,' ' Obs. de formis pr. eur. 

 Polytrichoideorum,' * Eev. crit. Icon am fl. danicse,' ' Hepatic^e in 

 Hibernia lect^e,' and ' Contr. ad fl. crypt. As!* bor. -orient.' That 

 he filled a high and useful place in bryology, all must admit who 

 have studied his writings, a place that can only be occupied by the 

 rare combination of a bibliophile and ardent practical botanist. 



Although Lindberg's main work was devoted to Mosses and 

 Hepatics, he did not confine his attention to these groups, as is 

 shown by his paper on Monotropa, translated by him for this Journal 

 (Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 180), his note on Hjjdrocharis (Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edinb. xi. 389), and various contributions to the * Ofversigt.' 



Last summer he was suffering from what he termed rheumatism 

 in the head, but an attack of hemiplegia in the autumn proved that 

 these pains were of far graver import. To him the writer is indebted 

 for much advice and guidance on critical mosses. Lindberg's 

 practical knowledge of these plants, and the exhaustive examination 

 of his specimens lent weight to his. opinions, which were valued by 

 workers of all countries : we should indeed have rejoiced if he 

 could have been spared to us a little longer. 



R. Braithwaite. 



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BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 116). 



Horman, William (d. 1535) : b. Salisbury; d. Eton, Bucks, 1535. 

 Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1477 ; of Eton, 1485. Vice- 

 Provost. ♦ Herbarum Svnonvma.' Pult. i. 25; Haller, i. 245; 

 Tanner, Bibl. Brit. Hib.' aOir 



