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Cambridge he was a schoolmaster for a short time, oe then went 
to Kew to work in the Jodrell laboratory under Dr. D. H. Scott. 
His investigations on the anatomy of the Nympheacee and 
Primulacee in 1897 led to his Fg ey as assistant in botany 
at Glasgow University, which post he held until 1907, when he 
became head of the botanical department at Birkbeck College. 
He was appointed professor of botany at soca in 1909, and in 
1914 became professor at Reading. Gwynn 
the vascular system of ferns and his Bia bag in collaboration 
with Dr. R. Kidston on the fossil Osmundace will take their pies 
amongst the solid contributions to the science of botany, being 
marked oot by carefulness and brilliancy. The news of his 
death cast a shadow over the botanical section at the British 
Association, and after the presidential address the meeting was 
adjourned during the time of the funeral. Gwynne- -Vaughan 
seemed to have a genius for friendships, and his store of in- 
bins his humour, and his keenness endeared him to all 
ota 
e death on June 4th of Henry Prirson, of Hertford, 
acquired a considerable knowledge of British plan nts. uring 
many years of residence at St. Mary Cray, Kent, he had become 
acquainted with the flora around Sevenoaks and Dartford, paying 
especial attention to the orchises of that part of country; he 
contributed notes on a hybrid orchis found by him at Sevenoaks 
Orchis maculata and Gymnadenia conopsea = oe: . Legrandiana 
Camus) to this Journal for 1899, 360; 1907, 278. For the 
flora i 
servations was that on Azolla in the Lea Valley, published in our 
last issue. His father, Daniel Peirson (1819-99), a nage oats 
of Hitchin and Reading, =< subsequently = Hertford, was also 
keenly interested in botany. He had a wide aequaintance 
with Hertfordshire plants, and miciied many localities 
to the habitats of plants to the secand edition of the 2 lors 
Hertfordiensis. 
THE nineteenth annual autumn fungus foray of the British 
Mycological Society was held at Swansea, September 27th to 
October 2nd, under the presidency of Mrs. Carleton Rea. Excur- 
sions were made during the week to the various types of wood in 
the neighbourhood, and though the number of species was not 
very large owing to the “run” in August and the dry weather 
afterwards, many interesting agarics were e found and several 
oe were added to the British list. On Tu esday Histor 
Mr. 
Society, : yest & paper on “Dry Rot,” which seems to be prevalent 
in ratte. On Wadheday evening Mrs. Rea delivered her 
gia: address, ‘“‘ Notes on Fungus Illustrations,” which 
