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and exceptions; he took special interest in the Pelorias of Yellow 



Toadflax and Foxglove. 



In middle life, finding the English flora fairly familiar to 

 him, he turned his attention to mosses, and later to liverworts 

 and the Mycetozoa, and with the liverworts and Mycetozoa he 

 was materially helped by his daughter Miss Agnes Fry. In 



spite of somewhat awkward manipulation and eyesight that was 



not first-rate, he derived an immense amount of pleasure from 



these studies and from the thoughts they aroused in him, and 

 he never lost sight of the broad questions of life and its nature 

 in the study of detail. Perhaps one of the happiest moments of his 

 botanic life was when Ihtxhnwmia indusiata was brought to him 

 in the Jura, and its interest was great for him as an early antici- 

 pation of the development of the sporoph; e and almost >mplete 

 suppression of the gametophyte. Another happy moment was 

 when the long desired fructification of Lunvlaria cruciata was 

 found on the crumbling walls of the Forum. 



He sometimes complained that modern science wets as hope- 

 lessly metaphvsio 1 as that of the Middle Ages, and wished at 

 times that men of science could he induced to state and argue 

 the debatable matters with all due forms and production of 

 evidence as matters of fact are debated in a court of law. 



"We nre indebted to Miss Agnes Fry for much of the infor- 

 mation on which this brief note is ha-ed. 



Hector Leveille. — We learn that Monseigneur Hector 

 Leveille, Prelat de la Mai son de sa Saintete Pie X, died on 

 November 25th, 1918. He was born at Mons on March 13th, 1863. 

 He went io Pondieherrv as Professor of Science and returned to 



Mons in January. 1SU2. He wii* well known as the founder 



and perpetual secretary of the Academie Internationale 

 de Geographic Botanique, the official organ of which, 

 issued at first under the title of Le Monde des Planter and 

 during recent years as the Bulletin de Geographie Botanique, 

 now in its 28th volume, he edited, and to which he copiously 

 contributed. Tie published numerous papers : n other journals, 

 and his studies of the family Onagraeeae found expression in 

 his Morwgraphie du Genre Oenothera, an Ironographie du Genre 

 Epilobium. and several smaller works. He was particularly 

 interested in the flora of China having received collections of 

 plants from French missionaries stationed in various parts of 

 that country, and described — often apparently hurriedly, 

 certainly inadequately — a large number of species which he 

 supposed to be new. He published a Catalogue des Plantes du 

 Tun-Nan and issued several other compilations on the flora of 

 China, either hectogjraphed or in manuscript. Tie was an 

 enthusiastic worker. Monseigneur Leveille, during! the last 



twelve years, was a frequent correspondent with Kew. and though 

 his contributions to the Herbarium were not considerable, he 



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occasions rendered assistance to the establishment. 



