XH. MEMOIR OF DAVEY. 



Polytechnic Society, Davey contributed, in 1908, on behalf of 

 that Society, a paper on the work of Carl Von Linne to the New 

 York Academy of Science in connection with its bicentenary 

 celebrations of the birth of that great naturalist. In the same 

 year he contributed to the Polytechnic an account of a botanical 

 excursion, which he piloted around Swanpool, Falmouth. In 

 1909 he read papers on W. P. Cocks, a Cornish Naturalist, and 

 on Neville Northey Burnard, a Cornish Sculptor. In 1911 he 

 communicated a paper on three Cornishmen, whose portraits 

 are hung in the Gallery of the Society, of whom only one, Davies 

 Gilbert, P.R.S., was interested in plant life. In the same year 

 he contributed his last paper to the Society, on Charles William 

 Peach, A.L.S. He was for some years Honorary Librarian to 

 the Society, and Editor of the Annual Reports, to which he 

 compiled the General Index from 1898 to 1907. He was elected 

 a Vice-President in 1908, and an Honorary Member in 1912. 

 He acted as a Judge in Natural History at the Society's Exhibi- 

 tions in 1909 and 1911. 



To the section of the Victoria History of the County of 

 Cornwall, 1906, dealing with Botany, he contributed the intro- 

 duction, summary of Orders, botanical districts with records of 

 Flowering Plants, and notes on Menthas, Filices, and Characece. 



To the Journal of Botany Davey contributed a paper on 

 Cornish Plants as early as 1900, and, in 1907, his most impor- 

 tant paper, on Euphrasia Vigursii, Davey. Besides these his 

 contributions were many, viz., in 1906 on the occurrence in Corn- 

 wall of Poly gala serpyllacea, var. vincoides, Chodat; Narcissus 

 odorus; Eriophorum an gust} folium, var. triquetrum; Carex mon- 

 tana, forma; Veronica peregrina; Cornish Rubi and Hieracium 

 umbellatum, var. curtum; in 1907 Notes from Cornwall; in 1908 

 on Fumaria occidentalis; .Cornish Plants; and a biographical 

 notice of R. V. Tellam; in 1910 on Agrostis verticillata at 

 Falmoi^th; Malaxis paludosa; Herniaria hirsuta; and a new 

 hybrid THTath found by Mr. P. D. Williams; and in 1911, his 

 last paper to that Journal on Thalictrum dunense in Cornwall. 



To the Reports of the Watson Botanical Exchange Club, 

 which he joined in 1900, he communicated many valuable notes, 

 usually accompanied by sheets of plants. His specimens were 

 always well selected, and beautifully mounted. He was a 

 careful and discriminating collector, and never ruthlessly 

 gathered rare plants, which were in the least danger of becoming 

 still more scarce or extinct. In the Report for 1907-8 he finally 

 deposed Herniaria glabra from any claim to being a Cornish 



