882 OBITUARY. 
is not verified by a re-examination of the evidence, for many of 
those forms are uneatable to begin with, or often occur in regions, 
ing mal 
to attack them. The real explanation of the origin of species is to 
ound in soil and climate on the one hand, and in a more or less 
distinct ebbing of the vegetative activities back from the growing- 
point; after the first few weeks of spring they in fact express a 
constitutional vegetative disadvantage. e origin of sex of 
moneecious and dicecious plants is next interpreted, and the paper 
ances, each in eree exhibiting types of 
vegetative or more reproductive preponderance. T be 
d thr ders, gener r even species and varieties ; 
larkspur and rue represent respectively these extremes 
ng Lanunculacee, or the subspecies cee sessiliflora. and 
pedunculata among British oak y the origin of 
the action of natural <e can at best tia: acccleney its 
journey, when it does not actually retard or terminate 
OBITUARY. 
Wes regret to record the death of Hamppen Guepstanes Gxass- 
POOLE, which took place somewhat suddenly, at Hammersmith, on 
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papers in ‘ Science ese on fruit-trees and other subjects, treated 
from a popular standpoint. His name appears occasionally in our 
ms 
enna by him, A new diatom, Chetoceras 
described and figured in Trans. Microscop. Soc. for 1860 (vill "151), 
from specimens found by Mr. Glasspoole. He was an original 
member of the Norfolk and agile Naturalists’ Society, and con- 
its ‘Transactions’ two papers: a “ Memoir o: 
Wigg,” and “ Biographical Memoirs of some Norwich botanists.” 
