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at Barbon, Westmoreland. Here he made the acquaintance of 

 the Eev. Eobert Wood, by whose advice he began the study of 

 botany. In 1865 he came as curate to High Wycombe, where I 

 made his acquaintance, and liad his company on many botanical 

 rambles. After occupying a similar position at Edgbaston, Derby, 

 and Bristol, he was appointed rector of Stirchley, Shropshire, in 

 1894, remaining there until 1909, when, in consequence of failing 

 health, he went to live in Shrewsbury, where he died on Oct. 12 

 of last year : he was buried at Stirchley. 



Although it cannot be said that Painter occupied a leading 

 position among British botanists, he did a good deal of useful 

 work, most of which has appeared in the pages of this Journal. 

 Among phanerogams his principal work was connected with the 

 flora of Derbyshire, on which he published a long paper in 1881 

 and supplementary notes in 1889 ; these formed the basis of his 

 volume Contributions to the Flora of Derbyshire, published in the 

 latter year, reviewed somewhat critically by Mr. Bagnall (Journ. 

 Bot. 1899, 318) ; a supplement, which appeared first in the Natura- 

 list for 1899-1902, and was subsequently issued as a small volume, 

 showed that the author himself was fully conscious of the imper- 

 fections of his book. During his stay at Falmouth in the spring 

 of 1898, Painter took up the study of mosses, which from that 

 time forward formed his chief botanical interest, and occupied his 

 attention during his holidays; papers on the mosses of Falmouth, 

 Derbyshire, Brecon, and Cardiganshire, will be found in this 

 Journal for 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1906 respectively. 



Painter was for many years a member of the Botanical Ex- 

 change Club, and was a considerable collector, although his speci- 

 mens were not of the first order. Many of them are in the British 

 collection of the National Herbarium ; but his own herbarium 

 with his geological and other collections was presented to Uni- 

 versity College, Aberystwyth, before he left Stirchley. 



The English Churchman of Oct. 20, which gives some account 

 of Painter's not remarkable ecclesiastical career, says that " in his 

 death the Church of England has lost a faithful and devoted 

 minister who was ever jealous for the maintenance of its Protestant 

 principles " ; he belonged, indeed, to the straitest sect of Evangeli- 

 calism, a school which has been steadily declining in influence 

 since the days of the Oxford Movement. 



The portrait is from a photograph lent by his widow. 



James Britten. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Introductions at Paisley. — The following is a portion 

 of a paper published in the Selborne Magazine for March : — 

 " During the summer now ended the strange flora of a waste 

 piece of land in the south of Paisley, Eenfrewshire, N.B., 

 excited much interest and discussion among the members 

 of the local Naturalists' Society. In addition to a large number 



