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FREDERICK TOWNSEND. Ria 
(1822-1905. , ae 
(wir PoRrRarr. dS 
iis death of Frederick Townsend at ‘Cimiez, Nice, | on Decem- 
ber 16, has removed from am ong us the Nestor of ‘British botanists, 
and one of the few re ing whose names appear | on = list 
of oohiributors to the first ealaitie of this Journal. For mo an 
half a century his name has been familiar to our rages: and 
r 
near Honington, ur Honin 
ton, and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the. e fouls F lym 
e was educa “Harro ‘ens Carhie’ 
where he took his B.A, i Y in 185 t 
Cambridge he became aieistoa with Babington, with whom, and 
in company with “we learn gton’s diary, 
he took botanical re be nd Cambridge as: early as 1847, 
Before this time, how send had become an experienced 
and even a critical Ptanist his first paper (that on his Glycerta 
pedicellata, published in 1850 (Ann. “Mag. Nat. Hist. -y. 104).) begins 
peat Fs ] ar ride up A a foe ag : ithe] Ecrrcet new. species. 
It will thus be seen that fro e first T end was an 
adherent of ie ‘critical “asliont of which "Babinetin was. rth pioneer 
in so far as it-directed attention to the work of continental bota- 
nists; and his published papers, .w with the. exception of that on 
Scilly plants, published in this Journal for 1864, are almost entirely 
concerned with the elaboration of segregates—the Scilly list was 
drawn up during a visit to the “Io rd” of the islands, of whom 
Townsend was a connection. Most of his papers appeared in this 
Journal; they include notes on the morphology of Carex and other 
vA. ti (1875, 1)5 ‘o on Ceras 7, 88); on Festuca 
1879; 155, Sd none 242) ; on Carex, fae ree 161); on Ranun- 
culus acer (1 889, 140, and 1900, 879) ; on Lepidium (1900, 420) and 
1908, 97), Of. tate’ y ears bisa oie eee eed upon 
Euphrasia,, Of which. con -published a m monograph: o f the British 
species, wit illustrations pm ‘photog s, fP thie Zopeaal for 
M Piobial DAP ap aes volumes; on this genus 
‘king the Mast. * Fis la ah aged to our pages 
a note on Galium sylvestre Shae tig a 240) which he 
hea collected in Worcestershire in Jun ee 
ve of Townoend” s ‘most intiresting ehctias was that of 
subject of a paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany, 
XViil. ‘a stone in 1881, and of further communications to 
JournaL or Borany.—Vor. 44. [Apnit, site os 
