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British mycology has suffered a great loss through the death 
of the Rev. Wruuiam LeicH Wiuuiamson Eyre on October 25th 
last at Swarraton, Hants. Mr. Eyre was born at Padbury, Bucks, 
on March 17th, 1841. He was educated for the = aie 
and went to sea at an early age. After a few years he gave 
seafaring. He was elated deacon in 1865 and sapieat in 1866, 
and in 1875 became rector of Swarraton and vicar of Northington, 
Hants. He early took up the study of fungi, and was a member 
of the Woolhope Club in the days of Dr. H. G. Bull, when the 
study of the larger fungi was carried on with vigour and 
enthusiasm at the autumn meeting at F Xetee. After D 
Bull’s death the Hereford foray very rapidly lost its place in 
the affections of myco cro cogs ee although the foray of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union to some extent afterwards replaced 
it, there was really no Mes ry arrangement for the meeting of 
mycologists until the formation of the British Mycological Society 
n 1896. In the season 1903 he was elected president, and gave 
as his sighs ‘‘ Mycology as an Instrument of Recreatio fe — 
only other paper appearing in the Transactions is ‘* Note 
Mass. — Porta ‘Eyrei Bresad. He gave gre rata nce 2 i 
Carlaten Rea. Eyre was an ardent Saeiaict and was a member 
of the Hampshire Field Club from its formation, the “Papers and 
Proceedings” of the Club containing several communications, 
principally on fungi. For many years he made a close stud 
of the genus Rubus, and his collection is in the Educational 
Museum at Haslemere, together with his collection of at dinette 
He was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and for 
many gee kept tabulated records of the district round Swarraton. 
Ina he showed extreme care and great enthusiasm ; his 
genialit ity afi Sor will be much missed by his many 
oe es.—J. R. 
A MEETING of the General Committee of Organization for the 
Inscxmillial Botanical Congress, which was arranged to be held 
London in May, will be held at the Linnean Society’s Rooms, 
Burlington House, Piccadilly, on January 21, at 6.30 p.m. 
Committee will be asked to consider the question of the postpone- 
ment or abandonment of the Congress. 
Tue Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for ee 
contains a monograph of the South African Gerberas, by Mr. 
A. Diimmer which 
Dr. Farmer has two papers on the plant in relation to 
ats pret and biological rake tyson and Mr. W. J. Bean 
writes on Chinese trees and shrubs. 
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