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GEORGE NICHOLSON, F.LS., 
(WITH PORTRAIT.) 
AurHouau of late years his name has been less familiar than 
formerly to British botanists, the older among us will have learned 
with regret of the death of George Nicholson, which took place at 
his residence at Richmond on the 20th of September. Those who 
knew him personally will regret also the loss of a warm friend and 
an interesting personality, for all who knew him liked him and 
those who knew him best loved him most. 
George Nicholson was born at Ripon on the 7th of December, 
occupied with the same subjest. From time to time he contri- 
buted notes to this Journal, the longest being those on Spergula 
arvensis and Cardamine pratensis (1880, pp. 16,199). Nicholson 
Botanical Exchange Club, of which he was a 
those for 1883 and 1887. In that for 1883 (published in 1885) he 
described the hybrid Scutellaria galericulata x minor named and 
figured by Taubert (Verhandl. Proy. Brandenburg, xxviii. 25 t. 2) 
as S. Nicholsoni. In the 1887 Report (published 1888) the Abbé 
Strail describes i 
se ere 
stem of a tree fern brought from Jamaica; his help is acknow- 
ledged by Mr. Salmon in his list of Kew mosses published in the 
Bo Eee ee 
* The reference in Index Kewensis, First Supplement, is to the Report for 
1890, p. 307, but the description of the plant will be found as aboy 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 46. [NovemBer, 1908.] 24 
