864 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
rved, 
meteorological observations] being a model of neatness and exact- 
ss.” His modesty finds expression in the preface to his Wiltshire 
adopted without regret the unpretentious title which it now bears— 
The Flowering Plants of Wilts.” It was doubtless owing to this that 
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Joseph Hooker also encouraged him and helped him in his work 
at Marlborough, and he was in constant correspondence with many 
ists. 
A sympathetic account of Preston, especially in his relations to 
Marlborough, from the pen of Mr. F. E. Thompson, to whom we 
‘ei tor + : ; 
: e ote: ‘*At a meeting 
of the Wilts Archeological Society, the President, Sir John Lubbock, 
q . ; : : 
John remarked to his host, ‘We hear of enthusiasts, but did you 
ever know a botanist who bought or leased a bit of land in order to 
preserve a plant from extinction?’ r. Preston did not betray 
himself, but one of the company, directing Sir John with his eye 
i shot.’ n it came out how 
a Certain marsh at Oxford was threatened, and how, to secure it, 
Mr. Preston obtained a lease of it.” The address presented to him 
when he left Marlborough, “couched in no exaggerated terms,” 
and Mr. Thompson sums up his character in the sentence: “ He 
was a man of strong and simple Christian faith, a devoted brother, 
a fast friend, genuine as pure gold, and singularly modest.” 
SHORT NOTE. 
or ten years) the packet of specimens in the Cambridge University 
um on which the late Prof. Babington founded his Rubus 
ving to which I gave expression in 1900 (Handb. 
“T expect that this Loxley plant will prove to 
