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October 28, and was buried in Wallasey Cemetery. She was 

 eminent as a field naturalist and science teacher, and during her 

 twenty years' connection with the Liverpool Naturalists' Field 

 Club she has taken a leading part in the conduct of the business 

 of that Society. She filled the office of botanical referee since the 

 death of the late Eobert Brown, and at the time of her death had 

 been for some years one of the Hon. Secretaries. She adapted 

 Prof. Atkinson's First Studies of Plant Life for the use of English 

 students, and drew the illustrations to Mr. C. T. Green's Flora of 

 the Liverpool District, noticed in this Journal for 1902 (p. 394) ; 

 her portrait appears in the group forming the frontispiece to that 

 work. Miss "Wood's pleasant resumes of the botanical work of 

 each session formed an attractive feature of the annual Proceedings 

 of the Field Club. 



William Nation could hardly lay claim to be considered " a 

 well-known botanist," under which heading his recent death (at 

 Clapham, at the age of 81) is recorded in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 of Nov. 9. He was born at Staplegrove, Somerset, in 1826, and 

 entered Kew Gardens in 1840, whence he proceeded to Peru in 

 1850, when he entered the service of a Spanish gentleman as head 

 gardener. He contributed plants to the Kew Herbarium from 

 1862 to 1880 : letters from him between 1853 and 1865 are also 

 at Kew. Nation does not seem to have published any botanical 

 papers, but contributed notes on Peruvian birds, &c, to the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society from 1866 to 1874. 



The valuable collection of Biatomacece formed by the late 

 Thomas Glazebrook Eylands (b. 1818, d. 1900), of Warrington, and 

 recently presented by his daughter, Miss Martha G. Eylands, to 

 the British Museum Herbarium, contains some 6000 microscope- 

 slides, a large quantity of diatomaceous material, and an extensive 

 correspondence. In the slide-collection is included that of the 

 late Dr. Christopher Johnson, of Lancaster, bequeathed to Eylands. 

 Dr. Johnson was the translator of Meneghini's paper " Sulla 

 animalita delle Diatomee " (Venice, 1845), published under the title 

 " On the Animal Nature of Diatomeae M by the Eay Society in a 

 volume of Botanical and Physiological Memoirs (1853). Others of 

 the slides were prepared by Walker Arnott, Greville, Gregory, G. 

 Norman. Forty to fifty years ago there was a period of very great 

 activity in the study of diatoms, as is well shown in the above- 

 mentioned correspondence. This is divisible into four groups : — 

 (1) Letters to Eylands from Walker Arnott, G. Norman, Greville, 

 Ealfs ; (2) to Christopher Johnson from Walker Arnott and Eev. 

 William Smith ; (3) to Greville from the same two writers ; (4) to 

 Walker Arnott from more than sixty of Ins correspondents, the 

 chief of whom are De Br6bisson (Falaise), Brightwell (Norwich), 

 G. M. Browne (Liverpool), T. Comber (Liverpool), H. D. Crozier 

 (Mauritius and Shorneliffe), T. Eulenstein (Canstadt), W. Gregory 

 (Edinburgh), E. K. Greville (Edinburgh), Miss E. Hodgson (Ulver- 

 stone), F. Kitton (Norwich), G. Norman (Hull), R Okeden (Swan- 

 sea), J. Ealfs (Penzance), F. C. S. Eoper (Maida Vale), T. G. Eylands 

 (Warrington), J. Staunton (Longbridge), and G. C. Wallich (Guern- 



