396 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
following words: “ Look, Polly! ’Ere’s poor old Darwin! He’s 
the man wot said we all come from monkeys!”’ Such is fame. 
Apart from its special usefulness in relation to the exhibition, the 
Guide contains much information of general interest, and it is we 
think to be regretted that it is only to be obtained at the Museum. 
This regret applies with greater force to such eegtee as the 
Guide to the British Mycetozoa, which is procs a monograph—the 
only cheap one existing in English—and that to Sowerby’s Models 
the ordinary way, through the bookselling trade. 
Tue death is announced, at Le Rocher, Lamastre, Ardéche, on 
whom he was associated in the finding of Utricularia neglecta in 
Middlesex (see Journ. Bot. 1883, 85). 
Rosert Morton MippLetTon was born on Jan. 25th, 1846, at 
Sowerby, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, but at an early age remove 
with his parents to Northallerton, ‘where his father became a bank 
manager. He was at first employed in his father’s bank, but 
subsequently went to West Hartlepool, where he embarked in the 
shipping interest. Afterwards he w the United States, 
whence urned and settled in Ealing in 1896. From his boy- 
hood he had been an ardent naturalist, he ile at Ealing he 
took an ve part in the work of the local ‘Scientific Society. 
obtained temporary employment. He left for a holiday i in sus 
expecting to return to his work, but while on a visit to his s 
in-law at Wallington, Surrey, he was attacked with sppenidibitis, 
succumbing after an operation on August 8th, and was buried at 
Bandon Hill Cemetery near Croydon. Middleton = a good 
knowledge of British plants, of which he had a e time a 
large collection; this he presented to the MacGill Dniverstty of 
Montreal. Of a genial and kindly disposition, he was always 
glad ‘i be of use hac to place his knowledge at the Aisposition a 
others. He published but little ; his last paper, on “The Firs 
Fuegian Collection,” preserved in the Sloane Herbittasn, aan 
in this Journal for June last. In 1880 Middleton became a Fellow 
of the Linnean Society, at whose meetings he often exhibited 
objects of interest. 
