122 In Memoriam : William Foicler. 



botany of his native county was on Salicornia herbacea and 

 Common Plants in Lincolnshire, in The Phytologist, 1857*, p. 302. 

 This was followed a year later in the same journal, by The 

 Rarer Plants of the Neighbourhood of Winterton, Lincolnshire , 

 enumerating some eighty species. After this for some years 

 he was specially occupied in assisting the late H. C. Watson 

 with additions towards a second edition of the Topographical 

 Botany ; though this did not see the light till after its author's 

 death, in 1883. From 1874 to 1887 he was busy collecting 

 for his friend, Mr. F. A. Lees, for the Botanical Record Club. 

 For the purpose of getting the specimens he required in North 

 and South Lincolnshire, Canon Fowler practically wandered over 

 every soil, most of the larger woods, and many an interesting 

 nook and corner of the county. This led to a series of articles 

 on plants in relation to soils, which appeared in The Naturalist, 

 1878-90 : — Lincolnshire Coast Plants, 1878 ; Lincolnshire 

 Marine Plants, 1879 '> Lincolnshire Bog and Moorland Plants, 

 1887 ; Lincolnshire Marsh and Water Plants, 1888 : Lincoln- 

 shire Sand and Clay Plants, 1889 ; Lincolnshire Limestone 

 Plants, 1890. 



In the carefully worked out first records possessed by the 

 botanical secretary of the Lincolnshire Union, the result of 

 his work stands as follows in new species, or good varieties added 

 to the county list : — one in 1855 ; seven in 1856 ; five in 1857 > 

 four in 1858 ; one in 1868 ; one in 1870 ; one in 1872 ; one 

 in 1875 ; twelve in 1876 ; eight in 1877 ; eleven in 1878 ; four 

 in 1879 ; one in 1880 ; two in 1881 ; three in 1882 ; one in 

 1884 ; one in 1889 ; one in 1891 ; one in 1892 ; one in 1893 ; 

 one in 1894 ; one in 1896 ; one in 1898, in all, seventy species 

 and good varieties. Considering the work of a long line of 

 botanists from Gerarde in 1597 to Watson in 1851, the result 

 of whose united labours has now come to light and robbed the 

 Canon of half his records, his list is a splendid one, and demon- 

 strates what a field worker he was. It contains Lycopodium 

 aipinum, which is now believed to be extinct with us, and 

 Selinum Carvifolia in 1881, a first record for Britain, and now 

 demonstrated to be a true native ; as well as many other species 

 of the greatest local interest. 



His connection with Natural History Societies was co- 

 incident with his botanical career. He was President of the 

 old West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society at the time 

 (1876-77) when it enlarged its scope, and became the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, of which in consequence he was the first 

 President, and he was re-elected to the chair many years later. 

 He was President and the moving spirit of the Liversedge 

 Naturalists' Society so long as it lived. 



He was a leading and valued member of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union, and its fourth Presidents. 



Naturalist. 



