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of Botany in Anderson's College Medical School, Glasgow. At the 

 time of his death he was President of the Natural History Society 

 of Glasgow, and an office-bearer of most of the scientific institutions 

 in that city. A few years ago he edited and published an enlarged 

 edition of Kennedy's Clydesdale Flora. He has written numerous 

 papers on Botany, many of which have been published in the 

 Proceedhuis of the Glasgow Natural History Society. He was 

 specially interested in Cryptogamic Botany, and was a recognized 

 authority on mycology. In private he was one of the most genial 

 and amiable of men, and his loss will be keenly felt by a very wide 

 circle of friends. — D. A. B. 



A Botanic Garden has just been founded in New York, of which 

 Dr. N. L. Britton has been appointed Director ; Prof. L. M. Under- 

 wood succeeds him at Columbia University. The first volume of 

 the new Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States has just made 

 its appearance ; we shall have more to say of it later. 



A "Flora of our Ten-mile Radius," by Mr. J. Hepworth, is 

 appearing in the Rochester Naturalist. 



Thomas Hick, B.A., B. Sc. (Lond.), A.L.S., who died on July 31st 

 at the residence of his son. Dr. Hick, at Bradford, was born at Leeds 

 on May 5th, 1840. Through an accident involving the loss of several 

 fingers of his left hand, he was disabled from following his original 

 employment, and this happily led to his eventual devotion to 

 Botany professionally. After having filled various scholastic offices, 

 including that of head-master of the Royal Lancastrian School, 

 Leeds, he became Assistant-Lecturer in Botany at Owens College, 

 Manchester, in 1885. Before this date, however, he had done 

 capital botanical work, notably papers in this Journal for 1884 and 

 1885 on protoplasmic continuity in Algae — papers which would have 

 made the reputation of a young man from an English University 

 (not London). Gradually Hick became more and more drawn into 

 fossil botany, partly from the influence of Prof. Williamson, with 

 whom he worked in great amity. When Prof. Williamson resigned, 

 Hick continued to work loyally with Prof. Weiss and to do the good 

 teaching work at Owens College which made him so popular with 

 his colleagues and students. There was, however, more than good 

 teaching — there was the open-hearted, enthusiastic, and genial 

 nature of a thoroughly good man at work in all he did, and his 

 methods of dealing with his men were always the outcome of this 

 fine character. He lived a good, natural, honest, and consistent 

 life, if ever any man did, and faced his troubles with fine resolution, 

 remaining steadfast to his aims throughout. Such men need no 

 memorial while their friends live ; but with a view to perpetuating 

 his memory in an appropriate way, a Committee has been formed 

 (including Mr. Cosmo Melvill, Mr. Leo Grindon, and Prof. Hickson, 

 with Prof. Weiss as Secretary) to raise a sum of money for the 

 purchase of his collection of fossil plants and part of his library, and 

 to deposit them in the Manchester Museum as the Hick collection. 

 Prof. Weiss (The Owens College Manchester) will receive sub- 

 scriptions. — G. M. 



