262 HEWETT COTTRELL WATSON. 
which take pe as a a partially or wh pe His ss 
papers are to be found in Loudon’s ‘ mrennnh . as greniree 
in Sir Wm. Hooker’s ‘London Journal of Botany,’ in old 
series of the ‘ Phytologist,’ which dates from eat to “fhe and 
in the earlier volumes of this Journal. In the ‘ Phytologist’ he 
wrote not un nanan reviews and anonymous notices, but in 
his case anonymity is a very thin veil. His last word in print 
was the letter to Mr. Newbould on the subject'of the authorship of 
third edition of ‘English Botany,’ = appeared at page 80 of 
this Journal for March of the present yea 
e was the — on of the London Botanisal Society, as Dr. 
J. i. fo and M . Dennes have borne testimony in print. 
He did not join for some time after its commencement, but for 
several years he was the only good oeGedl botanist amongst the 
resident London members, and all the parcels were sent down to 
Thames Ditton for him to supervise. When Dr. Boswell under- 
took the curatorship, this of course was no longer necessary. ‘The 
‘London Catalogue of British Plants’ is now in its seventh 
edition. The earlier editions were, I believe, almost entirely 
drawn up by Mr. Watson, whilst in the later ones he had Dr. 
islands possess a aeaiieg. interest. A surveying expedition was 
planned by the English Government, and the war steamer Styx 
detailed for the service, and notice was given to Sir Wm. Hooker 
that a botanist would be allowed a place on board if he would 
tion Sir William communicated wi r. Watson, and 
undertook the post on these conditions. Though much hampered 
made a collection of 338 out of a total flora of under 500 species, 
about one hundred of which were not known in the group before, 
several of them being new to science. Through this visit he in- 
troduced into cultivation several of the more interesting endemic 
Azoric plants, such as Campanuli Vidalii and Myosotis azorica. 
When in 1870 Mr. Godman planned a complete natural history of 
the work, which is not only valuable as a scientific production, but 
is in style eminently characteristic of its author 
uring his early years, long before railway times, he made 
many excursions in different parts of Britain, sipecally for the 
= of tracing out the vertical range of plants in the moun- 
tainous districts, a subject to which very little attention had been 
previously paid. A great part of what is given in the ‘ Cybele’ 
