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the Flora of Oxfordshire as if it had been his own undertaking, his own 

 notes being freely laid under contribution, and his copy of Sibthorp's 

 Flora pressed upon me with a generosity that would have no refusal. 

 The idea of compiling the present volume may be said to have been 

 fostered, if not started by him. Other acts of kindness rise to the 

 memory as these lines are written— his keen sj'mpathy, for example, 

 oh an occasion when he thought that I had been rather unfaii-ly treated, 

 and characteristically blamed the act of unkindness while trying 

 to find excuses for the offender. He said, in dismissing the subject : 

 'Ah ! it is like the smell of a smoky room, let us get into fresh air,' 

 and then tried to show me, I am afraid not quite successfully, ,the 

 specific difference between Alisma Plantago-aquatica and A. lanceolatum. 

 These are memories which even time does not destroy, and the thin, 

 pale, intellectual face is before me as I write these lines. 



Mr. Newbould died after a pulmonary attack on April i6, 1886, and 

 was buried in Fulham Cemetery. Professor Babington wrote a short 

 but most feeling tribute to his memory in the Journal of Botany (p. 159) 

 of the same year. He says : ' Mr. Kewbould was my oldest intimate 

 friend, one for whom I had the highest esteem, one whom I could 

 thoroughly trust, and who would have done anything in his power for 

 me. Indeed it was unsafe to express any wish or want in his 

 presence, for fear that he should start immediately to sujDply it. , . . 

 His knowledge of British Botany maybe said to have been imrivalled, 

 and yet he is unknown to the public. . . . All his knowledge of science 

 was used for the help of scientific workers, never for his own credit or 

 reputation. ... I cannot conclude better than by quoting a charac- 

 teristic remark which fell from his lips the 17th of September last : 

 " The longer I live the niore I feel that I must sum up all my prayer 

 in the Lord's prayer, and even more than all in that one clause of it, 

 ' Thy will be done."" 



Mr. Newbould's manuscripts Sre preserved in the Botanical Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum. He once told me he would have made 

 Oxford his residence, but that the shaky ladder, which was at that 

 time the only means of access to the Fielding and Sherardian herbaria, 

 was too much for his nerves. 

 Trimen. Dr. Henry B. Trimen, Director of the Botanic Garden at Perideniya, 



Ceylon, the author, in conjunction with Mr. W. T. Dyer, of the 

 excellent Flora of Middlesex, written when he was connected with the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum, visited Berkshire and 

 furnished some notes to the Contributions. He added Isatis iinctoria to 

 the county flora, the latter plant being a relic of the ancient culti- 

 vation of the Woad plant about Wantage. He was also a contem- 

 porary finder of Chenopodium j^olyspermum, and gathered on the chalk 

 downs a form of Cerastium vulgatuni, which he thouglit was near 



