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When the late Prof. W. C. Williamson and I were engaged on 
our joint “ Further Observations on the Organization of the Fossil 
Plants of the Coal-measures,”** we were so fortunate as to to secure 
their merits have been widely recognized. Thus Count Solms- 
Laubach, in reviewing the third paper of the series, says: ‘ Die 
i a. °T 
rebner was always too diffident of his own powers, and 
owing partly to this cause, partly to his uncertain health, his 
independent contributions to science were less numerous than his 
exceptional abilities would have led one to expect. As it is, how- 
r. Brebner produced three important memoirs on the Marat- 
tiacee—one on th j -C 
origin,} another on the prothallus and embryo o anea,§ in which 
origin of the filamentous thallus of Dwnontia Jiliformis,{ and in 
one on the classification of the Tilopteridacea,** which does much 
gap in the ranks of British botanists. As I have been closely 
associated with him, first as one of my ablest pupils and then as a 
valued colleague, I am glad to bear testimony to his worth as a 
single-minded and most skilful investigator. 
D. H. Scorr. 
* Phil. Trans. R. 8., series B, 185 (1894) and 186 (1895). 
t Bot. Zeitung, 1896, 2te Abth. p. 268, 
¢ Journ. Linn. Soc, (Bot.) xxx. 1895, 
§ Ann. Bot. x. 1896, 
|| Ibid. xvi. 1902, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxx. 1895. 
** Bristol Naturalists’ Society’s Proceedings, viii. pt. ii. 1896-7, 
