WILLIAM HILLHOUSE 105 
Cheshire. 3. H. pseudo-fluitans pete Warnst. Crosby 
Sandhills.—H. straminewm Dicks. Near Manchester. Thes speci- 
men is in fruit, and is pmeny. from Prestwich, from which 
locality it was recorded by Percival. 
ylocomium triquetrum B. "& 8. Fine fruiting specimens from 
New Brighton Sandhills, Cheshire, 1849.—H. brevirostre B. & S. 
Castle Howard Woods, 1847. There is no record for the Howar- 
dian tract in Mr. Slater’s list of North Yorkshire Mosses. 
WILLIAM Fer een 
(1850-1910). 
WILLI 
of Botany at the University of Birmingham, was one of the first 
ua, 
haa thereby to benefit his health, which of late years had been 
somewhat precarious. He was buried at Malvern.on Jan. 31st. 
of the Bedfordshire flora. On his return from a visit to Norway 
rium, During 
period he became a member of the Cambridge Philosophical 
| Bociety, and was appointed University Lecturer in Bota 
_ = le Lecturer in Botany at both Girton and Newiteah 
r to ; 
Straabaree This visit resulted in the translation of Strasburger’s 
Practical Botany, ber arte their or authorship, has reached 
as made 
its sixth edition. In 1 Hillhouse chairman of the 
Academic Board . ‘Mason College, and | largely by his efforts: a 
edie Extension M 
Birmingham 
Hillhouse took an nes: e part in educati tional work in the 
Midlands. He h resident of the Birmingham Natural 
History Beats, tnd th Beis: 2 Kits ’s dieetty Bearwood, and Po keserel 
Institutes, and for some years up to 1909 he : the 
JOURNAL OF Say. —Vou. 48. [APRIL, 1910. 2 oc 
