OBITUARY. 8838 
Quiet, unobtrusive, and retiring, Mr. Glasspoole never oceupied a 
prominent position among British botanists; but his readiness to 
elp, and his kindly and gentle manner, will be misse y the 
many who knew him. 
Dr. Ausert Kexioae, the well-known botanist of California, 
died in aaa: in that State, on the 31st of March, at the age ‘of 
works relating to West North American botany. He was a man 0 
singular genuineness and simplicity of character, as guileless as a 
child, and abounding in kindly spirit and goodwill towards all.— 
Amer. Journ. Science, June, 1887, p. 602. 
Tue Rev. Kirsy Trmuer was born at Poplar, Middlesex, 
Dec. 22nd, 1804. He was the grandson of Sara Trimmer, the 
well. Inown writer of children’s books, whose maiden name was 
ae bi preggo at St. Alban Hall, Oxford (now absorbed 
Norton and Stanh oe between 1828 ae the last-named date. He 
retained Io living until shortly Sa his death, which took place - 
on the of October last; he was buried at Crostwich, near 
ecw: oxae most of his family ee lie. Mr. Trimmer was not 
much known to British botanists generally, either personally or by 
correspondence, but devoted himself throughout his long life to the 
investigation of Norfolk plants. His taste for Totany, i indeed, dated 
from his Oxford days: one who was with at ban Hall 
writes——‘‘ His love of plants and his pastoral duties seme possession 
of his mind; in fact, I think he was never so entirely happy as 
h His love of Nature seemed entirely confined 
to plants in their natural state ; he showed no taste for their 
var ious combinations 1 in beds, &e.” rimmer’s inves- 
which embodied the observations made in his earlier entries of 
Stanhoe and Burnham Westgate, wi with his more recent discoveries 
in other open. of the pools Although not what could be called 
a ‘‘ critical” work, it bears evidence of much care, and is marked 
by an anxiety ge give due credit to previous writers in the same 
field—an anxiety which is even more prominently displayed in the 
