WILLIAM MITTEN 881 
he described the Hepatice for Sir Joseph pemery e Flora Nov 
Report on the Botany of the Challenger Expedition. In 1891 he pub- 
lished ‘* An Enumeration of all the Species of Musci and Hepatic 
apan.’’ Recorded is not the right word i in this title, 
paper, I believe, was on the Musci and Hepatice of Mount Kini- 
balu, Borneo; it was prepared in conjunction wit Mee, Hi 
Mitten 
first son ettbii tion was on Hypnum abietinum, appearing 1n vol. 
(Journ. Bot. 18638, 356) ; his last a short memoir (Journ. Bot. 1898, 
31 . Parker ‘Smit , who was also a Sussex muscologist. It 
may be mentioned here, as a not generally known fact, that Mitten 
except in saan i ae because most of it is outside of my province. 
My personal knowledge of him enables me to say that everything 
scientious manner. He seldom vues London, or, indeed, left home; 
so that he was personally known to comparatively few botanists. 
In a local notice of his death Bet pe ae described as a man of 
nt. 
rst became acquainted with him in 1859 or 1860, when I was 
living je Hassocks, and applied to him for assistance in naming 
British plants. He received me with great kindness and encourage- 
Ww 
received many things besides mosses, beens a seeds for his 
garden, of which he was very fond. I remember how keenly he 
examined his mosses and liverworts for st aniés seeds of other plants, 
and how much pleasure he derived from observing their germina- 
tion and growth. In this way he raised ct things from remote 
pees visited by the ‘Challenger’ Expedit 
connections with scientific soakoties prt all of an honorary 
chariee In January, 1847, he was elected an Associate of the 
Linnean Society of London, and he was also an honorary member 
Wales, and of the New “Zealand Institut 
Mittenia Lindberg (in Oefvers, Ko aa. ’ Vetens. Akad. Foerh. ix. 
1868, P: 606) was formed on Mniopsis Plumula Mitt. (in Hook. FI. 
Tasm. ii. p. 187, t. 178, f. 7), the name Mniopsis being a already in use. 
Looking into this matter brome to light the fact that although W. 
Wilson is the nominal author of the Musci in aay letter work, Mitten 
contributed many original drawings and criptio Littenia of 
Gottsche (Ann. Se, Nat, 5S. i, 177 (1864) = Palestoans ga’ (1821). 
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