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The death of Dr. William Walshaivi How, Bishop of Wakefield, 

 deserves a word of notice, as, without being technically a botanical 

 worker, he had an excellent knowledge of the British flora. In 

 1857, being then vicar of Whittington, in Shropshire, he was one 

 of the founders, and elected vice-president, of the Oswestry and 

 Welshpool Naturahsts' Field Club and Archaeological Society, and 

 he afterwards became its president. A paper on " The Botany of 

 the Great Orme's Head " was one of his contributions to the 

 Proceedings of the Society; it appeared in the Report for 1857-1864, 

 published in 1865. He also contributed the botanical information 

 to the Gossiping Guide for Wales. In 1879 Dr. How was appointed 

 Suffragan Bishop of Bedford ; in 1888 the new See of Wakefield 

 was formed, and he became its first occupant. The presidency of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for 1890 was offered to and accepted by 

 him. His death occurred somewhat unexpectedly on the 10th of 

 August last, at Leenane, Connemara. A fuller notice by Mr. William 

 Whitwell, with portrait, is published in the Nuturalisi for October. 



Edmund John Baillie, who died at his residence at Upton Park, 

 Chester, on October 18th, in his forty-seventh year, had been for 

 many years a member of the horticultural firm of Dickson & Sons. 

 Although not a critical botanist, he had considerable knowledge of 

 British plants, and in 1878 contributed to the Proceedings of the 

 Chester Society of Natural Science a paper on " The City Flora." 

 Mr. Baillie will be greatly missed in Chester, where he was a 

 prominent figure in every movement connected with social or intel- 

 lectual advancement, in which his natural kindness of heart found 

 an outlet. He took great interest in the Chester Museum, and 

 frequently lectured on subjects connected with natural history and 

 horticulture. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1883. 

 Mr. Bailey was born at Hawarden, Cheshire, on May 4th, 1851. 



The Rev. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish died on Oct. 18 at 

 his residence, Eoughmoor, Somerset, at the age of seventy-five. 

 Mr. Parish took his B.A. degree at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 

 1841. After holding a curacy in Somersetshire for some years, he 

 became in 1852 English chaplain at Moulmein, Birma, and at once 

 took up the study of botany, devoting himself especially to Orchids, 

 many of which — e. g. Vanda Parishii, Dendrubium Parishii — bear 

 his name. Dendrobium Parishii was described in 1865 by Mr. 

 James Bateman {Hot. Mag. 5488), who says: — "A glance at the 

 recent volumes of the Botanical Magazine will show the large 

 number of new and beautiful Orchids that have been secured to the 

 collections of this country through the zeal and enterprise of Mr. 

 Parish, whose eye seems to be ever ready to detect any new forms 

 amid the striking vegetation of the rich country that is now the 

 scene of his missionary labours." Many of his novelties were 

 described by Reichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle and elsewhere. 

 In 1878 Mr. Parish returned to England, and took no further per- 

 manent duty, though he continued to interest himself in botany 

 and in the Somerset Archaeological Society. He published several 

 botanical papers in the Juuriud of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and 

 elsewhere. 



