232 MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY 



and other contemporaneous mycologists. Hence Kew is, and 

 must for ever remain, the Mecca of mycologists from all parts 

 of the world. 



Berkeley was a man of great refinement, and an excellent 

 classical scholar. His tall commanding figure and grand head 

 with flowing white hair, as I knew him late in life, could not fail 

 to arrest attention. Unobtrusive and by no means ambitious, 

 and too enthusiastic to be self-seeking, Berkeley was tardily 

 promoted to the Honorary Fellowship of his College, and elected 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of ^6. In 1876 a 

 Civil List Pension of iJ'ioo per annum was awarded, for his 

 services to botany with especial reference to his investigations on 

 the diseases of plants. 



