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noticing in regretful terms his removal. His father was Mr. 

 Richard Groves, pharmacist, and his elder brother, Mr. T. B. 

 Groves. He was born at Wey mouth in the year 1835. At an 

 early age he showed a taste for scientific studies, and obtained 

 in 1856 a certificate for Botany and Materia Medica at the School 

 of the Pharmaceutical Society. Two years after, when only 

 twenty-three years of age, he contributed a paper in the Phytologist 

 " The Flora of Portland." After studying pharmacy five years 

 in London and Brussels, he went in 1863 to Florence, where he 

 married, and spent the rest of his life. Much of his spare time 

 was occupied in travelling far and wide throughout the Peninsula 

 studying its botanical features and collecting. Among his many 

 explorations, the most notable were those of Monte Argentaro, the 

 Maremma, the Abruzzi (including Monte Marrone, Monte Majella, 

 &c.), the Appian Alps, Monte Gioja, the Appenines, Otranto, and 

 Gallipoli, in Southern Italy, and Sicily. Many of these ex- 

 peditions subjected Mr. Groves to considerable dangers and 

 privations, from bandits, and from scarcity of food, which was 

 difficult to obtain. At the time of his death Mr. Groves had in 

 his possession a magnificent heibarium, comprising about 50,000 

 plants, the majority of his own collecting, and this treasure he 

 demised to the Central Botanical Society of Tuscany. Through 

 his industry several new plants have been added to the Flora of 

 the Italian peninsula. He constantly contributed to the pages of 

 Italian and English botanical serials. One of the last, probably, 

 was that of the "Flora Delia Costa Meridionale della Terra 

 D'Otranto" published in the Nuovd Giornale Botanico Italiano, 

 vol. xix., pp. 210, 1887, an epitome of which was published in the 

 twenty-first volume of the Linnsean Society's Journal of Botany. 

 Mr. Groves added from the littoral of Otranto a plant new to 

 science, Anthemis liydruntina, and four varieties of other known 

 plants, Centaurea deusta, Ten, var. tenacissima, Centaurea deusta, 

 Ten, var. nobilis, Statice cancellata, Bernh., var. Japi/gica, and 

 Ornithogalum refractum, W.K., var ; Adalgisce. Mr. Groves was 

 a genial companion and a kind friend. I am glad of this oppor- 



