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he conducted botanical classes for ladies. He declined the offer of a 

 professorship of botany in St. Mungo's College, Glasgow. His energy 

 and genuine love of nature infected all with whom he came in contact. 

 To the study of topographical botany he applied himself with 

 assiduity ; published a very handy wall-sheet of the Watsonian Vice- 

 Counties of Britain and Ireland ; contributed numerous papers to the 

 Glasgow Natural History Society, the Cryptogamic Society (of which 

 he was a vice-president), the Edinburgh Botanical Society, the 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History^ the Journal of Botany, etc. His 

 loss as an original investigator is deplored especially by those who 

 know how widely he extended our knowledge of rare plants by his 

 discoveries of them in places where they had hitherto been unknown 

 to exist. 



A singularly lovable man, he had a genius for friendships, and his 

 circle of friends was ever increasing. It was his special joy to 

 encourage young naturalists, and ungrudgingly he devoted many 

 precious hours to the task of sending specimens with notes attached 

 to those who were beginning the study of any branch of science. 

 Many in all parts of Britain to-day mourn the loss of one who spared 

 no pains to help them in every possible way. He is buried in the 

 Western Necropolis at Glasgow. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF SLUG OF 

 THE GENUS ATOPOS FROM JAVA. 



By WALTER E. COLLINGE, M.Sc, F.E.S. 



(Read before the Society, September nth, 1907). 



Some few months ago I received from Mr. John Ponsonby a small 

 collection of slugs from Java, entrusted to him by Major Ouwens, 

 of the Botanical Gardens, Buitenzorg. 



Most of the specimens belong to the genus Parniarion Fisch., 

 with the exception of an immature example of Philomyais bilineatus 

 Bens., two damaged Helicarion-\\\.Q specimens, and two specimens 

 of a new species of Atopos. 



This is the first record of the last-mentioned genus in this island, 

 although it is known from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Celebes, and the Philippines.^ In all probability future investigation 

 will show that the genus is distributed throughout the East Indian 

 Archipelago. 



I See CoUinge, /. 0/ Malac., 1902, vol. ix., p. 84. 



