THE REV. THOMAS ARTHUR PRESTON, F.L.S. 363 
T. A. Preston for the good work done by him at Marlborough 
College in the cause of n atural science. In the days when I was 
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the College Natural History Society and the Quarterly Journal of 
the Meteorological Society. The College Museum was projected, 
arranged, an “catal Preston. 
In 1885 Preston was presented to the living of seme in 
Leicestershire, and here, with his two sisters, who had with 
him at Marlborough, he resided until his death. . His inbieeet in 
area history, and especially i in botany, continued; he did much 
work in the Leicester Museum, the botanical section of which he 
rearranged ; and, somewhat on the plan adopted by Henslow many 
ears before, @alistod the boys and girls of his school in the work 
of recording “ first appearances,” statin’: reward of a farthing for 
a satisfactory report. In 1888 the Wiltshire Archeological and 
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latest date and mean time of floweri aig te result of his observa- 
tions in the field. Towards the end of his life he was asked to 
undertake a second edition of the not very satisfactory Flora of 
Leicestershire. Mr. A. ackson, his fellow-worker, in the paper 
on Leicestershire plants which he contributed to this Journal for 
1904 (pp. 337-49), mentions a paper read by ritinsees before the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of Leicester in 1900, e umerating 
additions to the county flora, and cn to oe herbarium of Leicester- 
shire plants in the local museum as one of the most representative 
collections of its kind, ‘“ thanks chiefly to [Preston’s] unremitting 
ar.” 
Preston’s work was characterized by zeal, steadiness, modesty, 
and accuracy. He can hardly be placed in the first rank of critical 
botanists, but he was eminently safe, and, as the sects of his work 
at Marlborough showed, a most stimulating and encouraging helper 
