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cladium, and McAlpine has recently found it in Australia; but it 
has been proved that the mould may be propagated from year to 
year without the sa tarsaaiten of this stage. A short account of 
Pusicladium pyrinum, wee occurs on the pear, is sas given. Mr. 
of experiments in spraying, and the ad- 
vantage gained was very degen He states that, if the = 
be properly prepared and applied at the proper time—that is, i 
spring, when the spores germinate—no serious losses are likely to 
be sustained from the attacks of our more common fungus para- 
sites. The mixture found most efficacious in spraying was separ 
with an addition of a salt, some sulphate or nitrate. The success 
of the spraying experiments is demonstrated by photographs, and 
the method of preparing the Bordeaux mixture made clear also by 
photographs and ‘et. = in the text.— 8. 
HARLES Coprineton Presstck Hoss, F.L.S., was born at 
Huddersfield on Fanuaty 18th, 1837. At the age of rota he 
entered the service of the West Riding Union Bank, after 
serving for many years as cashier at Huddersfield he one 
manager of its Dewsbury branch. Afterwards he became manager 
of the repo branch of the Huddersfield Banking yeh 
from this position he retired four years ago, and removed to Hors- 
forth and a rds to Ilkley, where he died on July 29 last. He 
was a man of great geniality +e a wide range of interests, and was 
very popular in the West Ridi He was one of the founders and 
,and an active mem f the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Nearly forty years ago he published 
a History of Huddersfield, of which at the time of his death he was 
on a in preparing a third edition. In 1864, in conjunction with 
his friend Mr. G. T. Porritt, the entomologist, he established the 
Nahe list, which afterwards became the organ of the Yorkshire 
Natu ralists’ Union and with which Hobkirk was associated un 
his death. He was best known to botanists by his Synopsis of 
British Mosses, of which the first edition was published in 1873, an 
the second in 1884. He also edited in 1877, in conjunction with ne 
friend the late Mr. Henry Boswell, the Lanne Catalogue of British 
Mosses. Before he took up mosses he worked at p SASEOATLS ; 
his first published paper on Huddersfield Daan appeared in 
Phytologist for December, 1858, and notes on Crategus and Rosa in 
the Naturalist for 1866. Perhaps his most interesting essay— 
which, curiously enough, is unnoticed both in the Index Kewensis 
and in the Royal soatety's Catalogue of Scientific Papers—is that 
“Sur les formes du Capsella,” which appeared in the Builetin of the 
Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique is aa (viii. 449-468) : 
Idart, of 
Hersert Decimus Gexpart, the tenth son of Joseph Ge ‘ 
Nowish, who died at his pease at Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, on 
