THOMAS COMBER 887 
one, read before the Historie Society of Lancashire and Cheshire a 
paper ‘‘On the Diatomacee of the Neighbourhood of Liverpool,” 
which was published in the Transactions of the Society in the year 
following. The list enumerates 266 species and varieties, and thus 
represents a large amount of work at a group then but little studied. 
On his return to England Comber took up the study of the distri- 
bution of British phanerogams. A short note on Manchester plants 
appeared in this Journal for 1872, p. 876, in which subsequently 
(1874) were printed abstracts of his excellent papers on the world- 
distribution and dispersion of British plants, publishe in the 
istoric Society’s Transactions in “- his the 
“ Geographical Statistics of the Extra-British European Flora 
was reprinted (from the same Transactions) in this Journal for 
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