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and Mr. H. E. Garnsey, Mr. Boswell worked with much assiduity at 

 the Moss Herbarium in the Botanic Garden. He arranged the plants 

 with characteristic neatness, and enriched the collection with many of 

 his own specimens. His services to the Herbarium were acknowledged 

 in the Curators' report for 1883. In 1887 he received the high distinc- 

 tion of being made a Master of Arts, honoris causa, by the University of 

 Oxford. He had an extensive coirespondtnce among British botanists, 

 and was in communication with Geheeb and Schimper. Some of his 

 letters (he was an excellent letter-writer) to Wilson, the author of the 

 Bnjologta Briiannica, are preserved in tlie Wilson Correspondence in 

 the British Museum. His time was largely occupied in examining 

 specimens which his numerous correspondents sent him from time 

 to time, and from almost all parts of the globe ; thus his herbarium 

 became replete with specimens of great interest, and the species are 

 amply and excellently represented. 



Mr. Boswell had no sympathy with the maker of micro-species, and 

 the unconditional surrender of Braithwaite to Ludberg's nomenclature 

 rather prejudiced him against the law of priority, but 1 do not say he 

 misht not in time have been converted to its use. He was well read 

 in general literature and especially fond of astronomy. After the 

 death of his wife in 1888 he became of more sedentaiy habits, and he 

 gave up the moss-hunting expeditions of which in earlier life he had 

 been so fond. In 1894 it became evident that general paralysis had 

 asserted itself. From this lime his faculties gradually failed, and he 

 passed away on Feb. 4, 1897. He was buried in the Cemetery of St. 

 Sepulchre at Oxford. His herbarium of Mosses and Flowering Plants 

 became the property of the Oxford Botanic Garden, while his library 

 was purchased by the author ^ 



Mr. Boswell's more important papers are as follow : — On the Bryologij 

 of the Neighbourhood of Oxford, Phytologist (i860) 343, 369 ; (1861) 262-4. 

 The Mosses of Oxfordshire, Journ. Bot. (1872) 363-74; (1885) 37. On 

 Eurynchium praelongum, Journ. Bot. (1873) 19. On Toriula incWiata as 

 a British plant, Journ. Bot. ^1874) i. On Dicranum undulatum as a native 

 of Britain, Journ. Bot. (1874) 175. Two additions to the British Moss list, 

 Journ. Bot. (i88o) 46-9. Jamaica Mosses and Hepaticae, Journ. Bot. 

 (1887'! 45-50, 118, including a new species, Scapania grandis, ^nd thirtj*- 

 eight which were additional to the island. New or rare British and Irish 

 Mosses, Journ. Bot. (1887) iii, inclnding Bnjum obtitsifolium. Tico recent 

 additions to the British Mosses, namely, Br yum gemniiparum and S^Jhagnum 

 Torreyanum, Journ. Bot. (1883^ 233. On Campylopus brevifolius, Journ. 

 Bot. (1883) 294. New Exotic Mosses, in which eight new species, Ortho- 

 trichum hoiiense, Macromitrium prolixum, Meteorium astulatum, Homalia densa, 



^ See memoir by the author in Journ. Bot, April, 1897. 



