CLEMENT RVAD 140 



**The Relation of the present Plant Population of the British Isles to 

 the Glacial Period," reprinted in The Naturalist, 1911 (p. 373). 



In January 1913, at the age of sixty, he retired from official 

 life. wSome years previously, in anticipation of his retirement, he 

 had bought an acre of land in a beautiful little valley, close to the 

 coast and hy the side of a pine wood, near the village of Milford-on- 

 Sea, Soutli Hants. Here he built himself a charming house which 

 he christened " One Acre," situated within about ten minutes' walk 

 of the famous Hordle Cliffs with their tine exposure of Lower Headon 

 Beds. He took a great delight in laying out the garden, in which 

 he grew many interesting plants, especially those belonging to genera 

 found as fossils. 



In 1913 he published Submerged Forests, a small 8vo volume 

 deahng principally with the changes of level which have taken place 

 in this country during post-glacial times as evidenced by the sub- 

 merged foj-ests found at different depths around the coast, and the 

 various problems connected therewith. 



In 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Keid contributed a paper to this Journal on 

 '' A new fossil ('orema," the fruits of which they had found in Eastern 

 county deposits and more recently in Holland. They had been 

 working for some time on the rich deposits of Pliocene plant-remains 

 discovered at Limburg in Holland, and in an adjacent locality over 

 the German frontier. In 1915 they published the results of this 

 investigation in the shape of a magnificent large-quarto monograph 

 entitled The Pliocene Floras oftheBidch Frussian Border, which 

 was brought out by the Institution for Geological exploration of the 

 Netherlands. This contained descriptions of a number of new species 

 and was illustrated by twenty excellent plates. The results obtained 

 were of the greatest interest : 189 species are mentioned, and in the 

 case of a large number of them the nearest living representatives are 

 to be found in the Himalayas, China, and Japan. 



In 1916 Eeid contributed* a paper to the Quart erhj Journal of 

 the Geological Society on " The Plants of the Late Glacial Deposits 

 of the Lea Valley," in which two new species were described : this 

 was in great part reprinted in this Journal for that year (pp. 193-198). 



During the last three years of his life the present writer 

 had the privilege of being in very close touch with him. Several 

 ]ileasant visits were paid to "One Acre," we had fossil hunts to- 

 gether in Hants and Dorset, and there were meetings in London. 

 Our correspondence was frequent and continuous, rarely more than a 

 few days elapsing without a letter jmssing between us. It came about 

 in this way: in 1913, my attention had been drawn to the curious 

 remams of Characeae found in the Middle Purbeck Beds of Dorset, 

 and I was attracted to make a study of the early history of the 

 group. Years before, Keid had sent us Chara-fruits from the Cromer 

 Forest Bed for examination, but we had not pursued the matter 

 further. He and I had always been on very friendly terms, and I 

 naturally turned to him for assistance in obtaining specimens and 

 information. He entered into the matter with his usual zest. We 

 borrowed all the s])eciniens we could of the Middle Purbeck cherts, 

 and in the spring of 1914 paid a visit to Durlston Bay to collect more. 



