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of flowers, mainly lilies of all kinds, to markets throughout 
England and Scotland. This now absorbs the attention of large as 
well as small holders, and on St. Mary’s there are many flower 
farms to be seen. The industry is especially important in view of 
the declining returns from the lobster and other fisheries on which 
the inhabitants at one time so greatly depended. I have it on good 
visit, and for kind trouble taken by him in connection with them 
since, 
IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN CARRINGTON. 
Brngamin Carrincton was born at Lincoln on January 18th, 
1827. _ He studied at Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh ; 
was apprenticed at Liverpool to Dr. M‘Nicoll ; graduated M.R.C.S. 
Eng., 1850, and M.D. Kdin., 1851 ; practised first at Radcliffe, 
near Manchester; then in succession at Lincoln, Yeadon, South- 
port, and Eccles. Twenty years ago he settled at the latter place, 
where he became Medical Officer of Health, a position which he 
resigned about two years ago, on account of continued ill-health, 
He removed to Brighton, where after much patient suffering he 
passed away, on the 18th of January, his 66th birthday, and was 
buried in the Carlton Hill Cemetery. 
Whilst studying at Edinburgh, Dr. Carrington wrote a mono- 
graph of the British grasses, and illustrated it with a set of speci- 
mens, with dissections of the minuter organs, so beautifully and 
accurately prepared that they won for him the admiration of the 
leading botanists of the University. Here he made the acquaint- 
; , and oubt his life's 
devotion to et ss botany was influenced originally by these 
s 
He was an enthusiastic naturalist, but it is of his contributions 
to botanical science, and more particularly to Hepaticology, that 
I wish to write. In a letter I received from him some years ago, 
