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memoir of his old friend and correspondent Dr. J. Bland Wood, of 

 Manchester, whose death he deeply felt. In his last paper, which ap- 

 peared in 1894, he gave an account of " Some New Zealand Mosses 

 and Hepaticae," in which the doubtful genus Helmsia is established. 

 To the Naturalist of 1879, p. 33, Mr. Boswell contributed a paper 

 on Mosses ; in the same year he compiled, for the Botanical Eecord 

 Club, the London CataUyjac of British Mosses and Hepatics, of which a 

 second edition appeared in 1881 ; he also acted for several years as 

 the Moss referee for the same club. The valuable account of the 



Mosses and Hepatics in my Flora of Oj-fordshirev^as written by Mr. 

 Boswell. His work at the flowering plants and ferns of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Oxford was chiefly done between the years 1856-76 ; 

 and he was the first to record several species for Oxfordshire. 



He contributed a list of plants, chiefly from the north of Berk- 

 shire, to Mr. Britten's "Contributions to a Flora of Berkshire" 

 which appeared in the Journal of the Xetvbunj Field Club in 1871. 



In conjunction with Prof. Lawson and Mr. H. E. Garnsey, Mr. 

 Boswell worked with much assiduity at the Moss Herbarium at the 

 Botanical Gardens. During the interregnum which ensued on 

 Prof. Lawson's retirement from the botanical chair at Oxford, Mr. 

 Boswell rendered great assistance to the curators, which was 

 acknowledged by the acting curator, Mr. E. Chapman, in his 



