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materials Among his varied attainments, he was an admirable artist, and had 
— accumulated an extensive series of sketches, which, even to the close 
his life, were remarkable for their accuracy and. for the firmness of the pen- 
siling Many of the latest of these sketches were made in connection with a 
revision of the perplexing genus Rubus, upon which he had already published 
something in the * Phytologist’ (new series, vol. i.), and on which he was occu- 
pied during great part of the past summer and autumn. It thus proved to be 
the last of his botanical labours, as the revision of the allied genus Rosa had been 
his first. In addition to vo the above-mentioned ** Synopsis of the British rr 
, ete. 
in 1835 (Trans. vol xvii). 2. “Observations on the Genera of European 
: E ‘On ; 
Tour in France,” in 1852 (ib. vol. ii). 8. “ Notes of a Botanical Ramble in 
the North of Spain,” in 1857 (Journal of Proc., § Botany, vol. ii). Mr. Woods 
was for upwards of sixty years a Fellow of the Linnean Society, of which he 
lived to be nearly the oldest member, He was also a Fellow of the Geological 
Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and an Honorary Member of the 
Society of British Architects, now so ably dum over by his old fellow-tra- 
veller, » Professor Donaldson. His nanio will be DL among botanists - 
rown, 
in the eleventh volume of the ‘Trans. Linn, Soe., and so oxi illustrated 
by drawings from the pencil of Francis Bauer ; by a species of Rosa, appro 
priately named in honour of him by Dr. Lindley, in his * Rosarum Mono, 
phia’; and by the beautiful Irish Jungermannia, first discovered by himself, ud 
named after him by Sir W. J. Hooker in his admirable work on the British 
ungermannie, and also described and figured in the ‘Supplement to English 
died, at his residence in Southover, on Saturday, the 9th of January, in his 
88th year. 
M. J deque Étienne Gay died at Paris on January 16th, 1864, at the age ot^ 
His loss to our science is inestimable, and those wlio were honoured ^ 
with his friendship will feel his absence from amongst us to a very ineunt de- 
gree. Although not a voluminous writer, it would be very. difficult to name @ 
botanist to whom By are more indebted for advancing the scientific knowledge 
of European plan 
BORRAN m — ‘eolunin, line 21 from above, read “ Zostera ma- ` 
rina,” for “nana.” P. 31,1. 13 from above, ed a full-stop after sepa: gh: 
d 1. 14, leave out full-stop after “ ancylopod. i 
