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botany : as his notes in this Journal, extending as they do over forty- 

 tive years, have shown, he Avas however constantly adding to his 

 information : although not critical on any particular genus, he was, 

 as his notes show, an extremely careful observer, and the specimens 

 which he distributed were always excellent. Apart from his conti-ibu- 

 tions to this Journal, Stratton published very little : in 1900 he issued 

 a little pamphlet for the benefit of visitors ito the Island on the Wild 

 Flowers of the Isle of Wiylit, in which the principal species of 



various localities are enumerated: in this he expressed "a hope of 

 publishing a Flora of the Island," but this hope was never fulfilled. 

 Not long before his death he had proposed to go through his hei'bariujn, 

 extracting such notes as seemed worth publication : but this also was 

 not carried out. 



Stratton was a man of cultivated tastes ; he painted both in oils 

 and water-colours, and was a constant exhibitor in connection with 

 the Isle of Wight Fine Arts Society. He sj)ent many holidays in 

 Switzerland — the first, I believe, with Trimen and Mr. Carruthei-s, — 

 and lectured on these and other subjects. A paragraph from The Isle 



