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was presented by the Society with a gratuity of £100 in consideration 

 of his services, and in 1890 he was elected a member of the Council. 

 He was also one of the original founders of the Quekett Micro- 

 scopical Club in 1865, and was at various periods a member of the 

 Council and Excursion Committee. He was one of the most con- 

 stant attenders at all the meetings, and was naturally appealed to 

 in all questions relating to systematic botany. 



During the time he was at the Royal Microscopical Society, as 

 soon as he found he had sufficient leisure he again commenced the 

 collecting of plants to form a second herbarium, and during the 

 summer recess in different years he visited many districts in Great 

 Britain that he might see the plants in their native habitat. 



He was very regular and indeed abstemious in his habits, and 

 this no doubt conduced to the general good health which he 

 enjoyed. Toward the close of 181)1 he began to fail, and on the 

 80th of January went to his sisters at Middleton Vicarage. His 

 botanical and other collections were sent to him at Middleton, 

 and from time to time he was able to talk about them to congenial 

 visitors with his old interest. But his disease — cancer of the 

 stomach — caused him much suffering, and he finally succumbed in 

 .the early morning of the 18th of May. 



By his death, perhaps the last remaining link which connected 

 the present generation of botanists with the school of Borrer and 

 the period of W. J. Hooker's British Flora has been severed. Mr. 

 Reeves was a field botanist of the old type : he was an enthusiastic 

 collector, and had a good knowledge of plants in the field, but the 

 newer methods of investigation did not attract him, and we have 

 understood that he classified his specimens in accordance with the 

 Linnean system. He printed but little, his longest paper being 

 a list of plants observed at Farnham in 1843-6, published in the 

 Botanical Gazette for 1850. He contributed information regarding 

 Surrey plants to Mr. J. D. Salmon, which is utilised in the Flora 

 of Surrey, and many London botanists have profited, by his help. 

 Three short notes on Surrey and Sussex plants will be found in this 

 Journal for 1871, 1872, and 1874. Beeves was a member of the 

 Botanical Record Club, the Report of which for 1883 contained a 

 premature announcement of his death. 



We are indebted to Dr. F. H. Ward, an intimate friend of 

 Reeves, for the personal information contained in this notice. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



COMPILED BY 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 152.) 



Silene Cucubalus Wibel, Prim. Flor. Werth. 211 (1799). 



1597. "Almost in every pasture." — Ger. 551. 



S. maritima With. Bot. Arr. iii. 414 (1796). 

 a^eribus maritimis Vectis Insuke." — Lob. Adv. 143. 



1570. "In 



