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to nie after his death by Dr. Scott, the former President : — " I 

 had a great regard for your brother, whose vigorous mind and 

 strong straightforward character made him a most valuable 

 colleague and friend. No one was of more service to the Linnean 

 Society." 



In 1896 Henry married Miss Bolton, and they had one 

 daughter, now aged fifteen. 



In 1900 we brought out our second fasciculus of Characea, to 

 which our friend Canon Bullock- Webster contributed a large 

 number of specimens. 



In 1904 the ninth edition of Babington's Manual was published. 

 Several years before, out of regard for the late Professor, and 

 rather than that such an invaluable book should go out of print, 

 we reluctantly undertook the task of editing it, with the limita- 

 tions explained in the preface. We should gladly have left the 

 work in other hands, as we felt that for some time we had been 

 getting out of touch with British botany generally, besides having 

 too little leisure to do the work as it ought to have been done. 

 However, as no one else seemed to be forthcoming, we did the 

 best we could with it. 



In my brother's later years other interests to a great extent 

 crowded out botany, and the limited portion of his leisure left for 

 it was devoted almost entirely to the study of the Characeae, 

 especially those of extra-European countries. He prepared many 

 hundreds of slides of these plants for microscopic examina- 

 tion, which represented no small amount of labour, considering 

 the draggled apologies for specimens of which so much of the 

 available material consists. He also made micro-photographs of 

 the membranes of the oospores of a large number of species. 



In 1907 he became a Trustee of the South London Botanical 

 Institute. Though he could not quite share Mr. Hume's opti- 

 mistic views as to its regenerative mission, he had great hopes for 

 the future usefulness of the Institute. 



In 1909 he visited the South West of France, and, in company 

 with Canon Webster, explored some of the lakes in the Landes, 

 collecting a large series of specimens of Characeae. This was the 

 only occasion he botanized abroad, his other visits to the Continent 

 being confined to the towns. 



In 1910 Henry went to Brussels for the International Botanical 

 Congress, acting as one of the delegates of the Linnean Society. 

 He attended the section which dealt with nomenclature, the 

 problems of which had a particular interest for him. He always 

 advocated uniformity of practice, and was in favour of changes 

 where they tended toward ultimate stability, having scant pati- 

 ence with those who opposed them merely on the ground of 

 inconvenience to the existing generation. In this, as in larger 

 matters, he was thoroughly public-spirited and had no sympathy 

 with opportunists, or with those who set their own interests 

 before the good of the community. 



In 1911 we contributed an account of the Characese to 

 Professor Urban's Symbol® Antillance. This was our most 



