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he came to Oxfoi'cl, where he remained until his death. A devout 

 and convinced Anglican, he was for fifteen years sidesman at the 

 church of SS. Philip and James, of which he was also for a short 

 time churchwarden. We had for some time hecome somewhat 

 intimate as correspondents, and on his occasional visits to town 

 he used to call upon me at the Natural History Museum ; it was 

 on one of these visits that I suggested to him the compilation of 

 a list of the records of the occurrence of the native plants of this 

 country, which I had long thought would be of interest, and which 

 his knowledge of botanical literature, tlien already considerable, 



rendered him qualified to undertake. This list was begun in the 

 Journal for January 1892 and continued at somewhat irregular 

 intervals until the end of 1906, when it was reissued as a volume 

 entitled First Becords of British Flowering Plants-. Clarke was, 

 however, never quite satisfied with the form in which the list 

 appeared in the Journal, where exigencies of space demanded 

 more strict limitations than he thought desirable ; and in 1900 

 he published a second edition, "revised aiid corrected," which 

 gave him more satisfaction and is indeed an important contribu- 

 tion to the history of British botany. In his introduction Clarke 

 sets forth his views on nomenclature, which were sentimental 

 rather than logical ; he had strong objections to certain conse- 

 quences of the adoption of the Vienna Code, and these were often 

 the subject of amusing discussion between us. 



Although possessed of a good knowledge of British plants, it 

 was the bibliographical side of botany in which Clarke took most 

 interest, and his proximity to the Bodleian and the Botanic 

 Garden gave him every opportunity for following out his bent. 



