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were always greatly valued for the information they contained. 

 A selection of his letters to various correspondents will, it is to be 

 hoped, some day see the light ; it would be interesting and valuable. 

 Mr. Watson died on July 27, i88r, in the seventy-eighth year of his 

 age, and was buried in the churchyard of Thames Ditton. 



Mr. Watson's herbarium is at Kew ; many of his manuscripts are 

 preserved in the Botanical Department of the British Museum. An 

 excellent memoir of him, with a photograph appended, from the pen 

 of Mr. J. G. Baker, appeared in the Journal of Botany for September, 

 1881. His name is commemorated in Erica Watsoni, Eleocharis Wcttsoni, 

 and some other plants. He discovered Ranunculus b-ipartitus in 

 England. Unfortunately, he did not botanize much in Berkshire, but 

 in the report of the Botanical Exchange Club for 1867 he records Ranunculus 

 Lenormandi and Vio^a lactea, both of which are additions to the county. 

 In Mr. Britten's Contributions, to which Mr. Watson supplied a list of 

 plants observed by him in the Streatley, Bagshot, and Wokingham 

 districts, we find the further additions of Sagina ciliata, Arenarisi ienui- 

 folia (see Herb. Bicheno), Trifolium Jiybriclum, Epilobium obscurum (which 

 was probably Mill's plant from Bisham Wood, which he thought was 

 E. tetragonnrn'), Callitriche platycarpa, Hieracium trideniatum {H. rigidum, var.), 

 Potamogp.ton poh/gonifolius, Atriplex Jiastata, A. erecta, Alopecurus fulvus, 

 Cardamine flexuosa, Camelina sativa, and Galeopsis Tetrahit, var. bifida. 

 Watson Avas also the contemporaneous recorder of Cerastium semidecan- 

 drum, Glyceria (Panicu^aria) plicata, Chenopodium poJyspermum, and Silene 

 anglica, and was the first to put on undoubted evidence the occurrence 

 of Mi/osotis repens and Pyra'a minor in Berkshire. 



My lamented friend, the Rev. William Williamson Newbould, M.A., 

 r.L.S., was born at Sheffield in 1819. He was educated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of Professor Henslow, and 

 made the acquaintance of Mr. C. C. Babington, to whom he soon 

 proved a most earnest and active assistant in the preparation of the 

 Flora of Camhridgefhire. He took his B.A. degree in 1842, his M.A. 

 degree in 1845, was ordained Beacon in 1844 and Priest in 1845, ^nd 

 for some time held the curacy of Bluntisham in Huntingdon, and sub- 

 sequently that of Comberton in Cambridgeshire. The pages of Topo- 

 graphical Botany show many traces of his Avork for several English 

 counties. His extreme modesty and an apparent dislike to publicity 

 prevented his making known the great mass of information which he 

 possessed respecting our British plants. In 1846 he added Ranunculus 

 Drouetii. in 1848 Sagina ciliafa, Apcra interrupta, MeHlofvs arrensis, 

 and Orobanche Picridis to the British flora. In 1848 he visited 

 Jersey and there discovered Agrimonia odorata, and also accompanied 

 Babington into Pembrokeshire. In conjunction with Mr. J. G. Baker 

 he brought out the second edition of Topographical Botany. To Mr. 



