518 Obituary Notices. [sess. liii. 



shows in gTasping the relationship of the types and the acute 

 sense of proportion shown in their arrangement. I never cease 

 when I nse the book to admire the skill which is shown in 

 dividing out the types into species, sub-species, and varieties, 

 a task done so thoro uglily well, that when Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 with all his wide experience, went over the same ground in 

 his Student's Flora, he found extremely little to change " 

 {Jour. Bot., xxvi. 83). 



Boswell's very large British herbarium was purchased by 

 Mr F. J. Hanbury, T.L.S., Upper Clapton, London, who 

 generously allows any botanist to have access to it by apply- 

 ing to him. The collection contains many critical notes and 

 some unique specimens, and is kept entirely distinct {Jour, 

 of Bot., xxvi. 157). Mr J. C. Melvill possesses the Foreign 

 Collection, marked with distinctive labels, at Alkersal 

 Cottage, Prestwich, Manchester. 



From 1868 till his death (28th January 1888) Boswell 

 lived at his ancestral home, Balmuto, near Kinghorn, a 

 much respected' country gentleman. He seldom appeared as 

 a magistrate, but for many years arranged the distributions 

 of the Botanical Exchange Club, and drew up the Annual 

 Iteports, which are all printed in the Journal of Botany. 



In 1875 the University of St Andrews conferred on him 

 tlie degree of LL.D., in recognition of his valuable contribu- 

 tions to science, and in 1884 he was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow of our Society. 



He is survived by his widow and by two sons, the elder 

 of whom is at the Scottish Bar, and an only daughter. 



A portrait will be found in Illustrated London News, 11th 

 Feb. 1888. 



Chronolorfiral Lid of Scientific PaitevR. 



1. Syme, John T. Boswell. Notice of some of the rarer Plants 



observed in Orkney during the Summer of 1849, Ann. Nat. 

 Jlid., v., 18.50, pp. 206-209; Edin. Bot. Soc. Trans., iv., 

 1853, pp. 47-50. 



2. ISotice of the Occurrence of Bteocliaris uniglumis, Linlc, near 



Blackness Castle, Linlithgowshire, Ann. Nat. Hid., vi., 

 1850, pp. 145-146. 



3. On the Sparrianium nutans, L. Ilenfrcy, JJ(jt. Gaz., iii., 1851, 



jjp. 157-159. 



