862 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Civil War in Shropshire; his work in elucidating local history was 
pect ized by the co onferring on him in 1903 the honorary freedom 
f the borough of Shre wsbury. The Shrewsbury and Border Counties 
his funeral in the General Cemetery _ attended by repre- 
sentatives of all the abies bodies of the town and of various 
societies of which he was a member. e are indebted to the 
portrait, from a photograph taken not very long before his death, 
which appeared in the issue containing the account of the funeral. 
THE REV. THOMAS ARTHUR PRESTON, F.L.S. 
(1888-1905.) 
Circumstances have prevented us from giving at an earlier da 
some account of the late Rev. T. A. Preston, whose death on Feb. 6 
was oy, recorded on p. 104 of this Journal. Mr. Preston, who was 
n Westminster, on Oct. 10, 1838, was educated at the City of 
tiiddh School, whence he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; 
he took his B.A. in 1856, and his M.A. in 1859; in 1857 he headed 
the first division in the Natural Science Tripos, with distinctions in 
botany and zoology. At Cambridge Preston was a pupil of Babington, 
f the latter 
with whom, as 
corresponde d in later life, chiefly in connection with the develop- 
ment of natural sone studies at Marlborou ugh College, with which 
i 
master er from 1858 to 1878, and house-master from that year until 
1885. In 1858 he was ordained a deacon, and in 1860 a priest, of 
the Church of England 
good all-round naturalist, he at once began to interest the 
boys in the natural history of their district. With this object os 
published in 1863 a Flora of che i which he be 
compile as soon as he took up work at the school; with Seton 
public schools. To the training imparted by Preston to his pupils 
we owe the excellent work done by Mr. Everard im Thurm in British 
Guiana, and by Mr. J. F. Duthie in India; while British botanists 
have cause to thank him for the ibdobs investigation of their flora 
by the -e K. 8. Marshall. 
sends us an appreciation of a and his work, 
which will be read with interest. “I have every good reason to 
mber and to hold in honour the pitas oi my old friend 
