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Page 196, line 17, "Ipse," unidentified, has been recognised as 

 Hohenacker. 



Page 238, line 14 from bottom, between '• Havana " and ''Mel- 

 villl," insert "E. de la Sagra." 



Page 239, to ** Cystoclonium," add " C. purpurascens. Cuba, 

 R. de la Sagra.'' 



Page 241, to " Bangia," add '' B. dispersa Mont. Martinique, 

 Belanger.'' To "Porphyra," add "P. vexillaris Mont. Martin- 

 ique, Belamjer.'' To ** Gragilaria," add " G. multipartita. Ha- 

 vana, B. de la Sagra.'' 



Page 306, under '* Hypnea musciformis Lam.," before Jamaica, 

 insert ** Nevis, Memiesl'' and after Jamaica add ^' Wright \'' To 

 "Hypnea spinella J. Ag.," add "Florida, Hooper \ in Farlow, 

 Anderson & Eaton, No. 145." To " H. secundiraihea Mont.," add 

 "St. Thomas, Mertens\'' 



Page 307, to " Eucheuma isiforme Ag.," add "Yucatan, Schottl'* 



THE REV. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.R.S. 



Miles Joseph Berkeley, whose death on the 30th July was 

 briefly recorded in the last number of this Journal, was born at 

 Biggin, near Oundle, in the year 1803. He was educated at Rugby, 

 and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 

 1825. Having taken orders, his first appointment in the Church 

 was a curacy at Margate, and, while there, his principal scientific 

 occupation was zoological. His first contributions to science were 

 some half-dozen memoirs in the * Zoological Journal ' and the 



* Magazine of Natural History,' devoted to the Mollusca and the like. 



His first botanical publication of any note is the ' Gleanings of 

 British Alg»' (1833), an appendix to the ' Supplement to Enghsh 

 Botany.' It was originally Berkeley's intention to publish the 

 plates of the 'Gleanings' as a supplement to Greville's 'Scottish 

 Cryptogamic Flora,' but in consequence of the discontinuance of 

 that work, a fresh arrangement was made with Mr. Sowerby. The 



* Gleanings ' is not in any way a remarkable performance, and it 

 may be interesting to note here that when Berkeley thirty years 

 later published a * Handbook of British Mosses,' the result was again 

 of moderate excellence compared with his achievements in other 

 directions, viz., the study of Fungi and of plant pathology. On 

 leaving Margate he obtained a living at King's Cliffe, Wansford, 

 where he continued to reside until his removal to Sibbertoft, Market 

 Harborough, in June, 1868 : here he remained until his death. 



Berkeley's first great work was the volume on Fungi in the 



* Enghsh Flora,' pubHshed in 1836. When the state of mycology 

 in this country at that time is considered, the difficulties to be 

 overcome in the work may be imagined. The gathering of the 

 mnierial, the sifting of it, and the putting of the result into shape, 

 represented much labour, and called for the highest excellence in 

 judgment. Berkeley was equal to the task, and in the opinion of 



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