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MR. F. C. S. ROPER. 



Feeeman Clarke Samuel Roper, who died at Palgrave House, 

 Eastbourne, on July 28th last, in his seventy-seventh year, was 

 born at Hackney on Sept. 23rd, 1819. He was educated at the 

 Hackney Grammar School, but entered business at a very early 

 age, from which he retired, as the senior member of his firm, in 

 1874. During the many years that he lived in London, Mr. Roper 

 took a keen interest in scientific pursuits, first in geology, and later 

 in microscopy. In 1868 he took up his residence at Eastbourne, 

 and during the later years of his life he devoted himself almost 

 exclusively to botany. 



Twenty-six papers stand under his name in the Royal Society's 

 Catalogue up to 1883, and others were published by him subse- 

 quently to that date. A glance through their titles shows that Mr. 

 Roper had a general interest in natural history. His earliest papers 

 deal with the iJiatoiiiacea., of which he published numerous new species 

 in the Journal of the Micror.copical Society for 1854 and 1858. In these 

 plants Mr. Roper was specially interested ; he had a large and valuable 

 collection, which he bequeathed to the Department of Botany of 

 the British Museum — a useful addition to the magnificent series 

 alrea'ly there. After settling at Eastbourne, he took up the study 



