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thing about them. Massee wUi have his MS. for a P\Teno vol. 



he promised some years ago that the pubhshers haven't tackled 

 yet."' Hawley, though still taking a great interest in fungi in 

 general, became more and more interested in P\Tenomvcetes, 

 and after the war settled down in earnest to the preparation of 

 the Monograph which he had considered the possibihtv of ten 

 years pre\-iously. Unfortimately, the manuscript as he left it 

 is not sufficiently complete tor pubUcation. This is particularlv 

 to be regretted, not only on account of the great need for such 

 a volume but also because in the course of the work onl\' the 

 short series of "Notes on Some British P\Tenomycetes " {Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc. viii {1923), p. 226) and an abstract of a general 

 paper on " The P\Tenomycetes and some problems thev suggest " 

 (Xaturalist, 1912) were pubHshed. With the addition of the report 

 of the fungi of Clare Island with Mr Carleton Rea [Proc. Row 

 Acad. XXXI (1912)) and one or two notes on other mycological 

 matters these are the only papers which stand to the name of 

 one of our most careful workers. 



In manner Hawley was exceedingly self-eftacing. Hale and 

 hearty in appearance he at first struck one as being exceedinglv 

 shy until one reahsed that there was a complete absence of 

 nervousness. After the war this reser\'e seemed not quite so 

 marked, but this was probably merely that one got to know him 

 better. In the hell of the battle of the Sonmie this imperturba- 

 bihtv impressed his feUow-officers and men who were, as he 

 himself, undergoing their blooding of heaw bombardment. It 

 is indeed strange that the same mannerism which when first 

 encoimtered at a mycological meeting rather inhibited under- 

 standing should have enabled him to appear imconcemed and 

 cheerful imder conditions man had never faced before, then 

 attracted and impressed his comrades in such a way that on his 

 death they bore tribute to this ven* character. 



The news of Sir Henry's death came as a great surprise to 

 most of us. Little did we know that the letter accompan\ing 

 the short account of the fungi found on a blackbird's nest* which 

 he sent to the Windsor Foray, in which he mentioned that he 

 had been ' ' a httle imweU " was, as he himself realised, his f are- 

 weU. 



Lady Hawley has generously presented his specimens, manu- 

 scripts and drawings to the National Herbarium. 



* See p. 239. 



