FREDERICK CURREY. 811 
College, Cambridge, where he obtained a meappcomges took his B.A. 
degree in 1841, and proceeded to M.A. in 1844. In that year he 
was called to the Bar, and thereafter practised as conveyancer and 
equity arn dae n. 
His earliest work on scientific wens appears to have been a 
Sespndladiong of Schacht’s ‘ i ikroskop,’ which was issued in 
1858, and so Balog received a call for : second edition two years 
later. In 1 4 he soneeeead a paper to the ‘ Missoenupioeh 
Journal’ on eon new Fungi, and in ‘the fifth volume of the 
‘ Phytologist’ were printed some observations on the ‘‘ Fungi of the 
neighbourhood of Greenwich.”’ The ‘ Microscopical Journal ’ about 
this time contains several papers on the more obscure points in the 
life-history of cryptogams and local botany. 
e Greenwich Natural History Club, established in pine had 
ted a committee to draw up a report on the of the 
ichboushos d. Mr. Currey was chosen chairman, and drafted the 
report, which was printed as an octavo pamphlet early in 1858, in 
which 895 Fungi were enumerated. - e title runs, ‘On the 
Botany of - district lying between the Rivers Cray, Ravensbourne 
and Tham 
n the first volume of the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’ he 
described the development of Sclerotium roseum, Kneiff., which was 
named by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley Peziza Curreyana. “In 1856 he 
was elected Fellow of the Linnean anenk ; in 1857 he communi- 
cated an account ia the existence of amorphous starch in a 
Tuberaceous Posse o the Royal Society, followed by his being 
elected into that Society § in 1858. On the retirement o J. 
Bennett, in 1860, from the secretariat of the Linnean Society, 
r. Currey was chosen as his successor, and continued in that 
office until 1880, when he relinquished it to undertake the less 
Rating duties of treasurer, which position he held at the time of 
is death. 
In 1859 he undertook his most extensive work in the shape of 
a translation, with considerable additions by the author, of vad 
~ aus s¢ Nae chende Untersuchungen ue eber der . . . hoeher 
rypto his was published in 1862 by the Ray Society, 
under ‘the title ‘On the germination, development, and fructi- 
fication of the higher Cryptogamia, ete.’ This was quickly Sorte 
m’s ] 
by his edition of Dr. Ba ‘ Esculent Funguses of Englan 
1863, in which he seioed “hnself to corrections and beatae 
the work down al communications will be found in 
the Journal and Transactions of the Lin innean Society, which are 
set out in the ‘ Catalogue of Scientific Papers.’ Amongst them we 
may name ‘Notes on British Fungi’ in 1864, and ia K last contri- 
There was no joint communication to the Society, as eabe be inferred 
from this, but the authority is given in one of Be rkeley’s own papers. 
