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IN MEMORY OF GEORGE STACEY GIBSON, F.L.S. 
By G. 8. Bouter, F.L.S. 
(Wire Portrait.) 
i Ae aphocics knowledge of. local floras, which seems to become 
rarer as a general knowledge of Botany becomes more common, has 
sustained a serious loss in ‘the: death of GuorGE STACEY Gipson, 
which oceurred on April 5th... 
Mr. Gibson was born on July: 20th, 1818, Pe Safiron Walden, 
the small town in the north-western corner of the county of Essex, 
in which he.spent most, of his life, and which he enriched by his 
numerous and munificent. benefactions. . He was the only child of 
Wyatt George Gibson and his wife Deborah, daughter of George 
Stacey, of Alton, Hampshire, his father’s family being mainly from 
the North of England and: connected Soars those of Middlebrooke, 
Johnson, and Atkinson, from the ghbourhood of Doncaster, 
Wilson of Kendal, and Wyatt, Mx. Gibson pas lineally descended 
from Sir Henry Wyatt, the father of the poet... His branch of the 
Gibson family migrated into Essex, from Norfolk, about 125 years 
back; and, though another branch was previously settled at Great 
Chesterford, the great grandfather of the late author of ie ‘ Flora 
of Essex,’ Georg e Gibson, for fifty-two Ppa a minister of the 
Society of Friends, was the axe sot the family to live in Saffron 
observation not o oe added many species to the list of Essex plants, 
but also detected several forms previously ead in Bri 
The following is a chronological list of the latter 
1. Cuscuta Trifolii . 1842. 4. Arenaria aig . 1844. 
2. Crepis setosa . . . 1848. 5. Galium Vaillantii. . 1844. 
3. Filago spathulata. 18438. 6. Potentilla norvegica . 1868. 
Of these most were recorded in the pages of the first series of the 
‘ Phytologist,’ his contributions to which were as follows:—To vol. i 
(1841-44), p. 408, ‘A Flora of the N eighbourhood of Saffron Walden,’ 
1842, containing Cuscuta Epithymum? which afterwards ae to be 
C. Trifolii; p. 466, ‘Additional Observations to a ‘‘ Not a sup- 
posed New British Cuscuta,” by C. C. Babington’ (C. “Drifolit), 
January, 1843; p. 785, ‘ Rarer Plants observed near Weymouth,’ 
t, p. 
August, 1843; p. 770, ‘Note.on the New Cuscuta,’ August, 1848 ; 
p. 817, ‘ Notice of a Visit to ‘Black Notley,’ ty Joshua Clarke and 
JourNaL or Borany.—Vou. 21. [Junz, 1883.] 
