﻿detailed notice : a Flora of Edinburgh worthy of the name is still a 

 thing of the future. 



The third part of the I •>■!,.,■ Kncmsis appears just as we are 

 going to press : it carries the enumeration down to the middle of 

 Psidium. The printing of the concluding portion is proceeding 

 rapidly, and the work will be completed about Midsummer, 1895. 



OBITUARY. 



The Rev. William Maksden Hind, whose death took place 

 suddenly at Walsham-le- Willows, Suffolk, on September 13th, 

 was a member of an old Yorkshire family. He was born in a 

 little village near Belfast, in which neighbourhood his father had 

 established a cotton mill, on Feb. 21st, 1815. He was educated 

 at the Belfast Academy, and subsequently at Trinity College, 

 Dublin, where he graduated in 1839. In the same year he was 

 appointed to the curacy of Derriaghy, Co. Down, where he first 

 began to study plants. Coming to England, he was curate at 

 Pulverbach, 1845-8, and held other appointments until 1861, 

 when he went to Pinner as perpetual curate, remaining there until 

 1875, in which year he was appointed rector of Honington, Bury 

 St. Edmunds, a position he held until the end of his life. 



His first botanical notes were published in the Phytologist for 

 1851, and included observations on Lolium perenne and Anacharis, 

 and some localities of plants near Belfast : he also published notes 

 in the new series of the same journal. He contributed largely to 

 Mr. Melvill's Flora of Harrow, published in 1864, and in 1876 

 edited a second edition of that work. In 1870 he presented his 

 large British herbarium to Trinity College, Dublin, in acknowledg- 

 ment of which the University conferred on him the title of LL.D. 

 He contributed to this Journal for 1871 notes on Middlesex plants 

 and on a supposed occurrence of Draba rupestris (which proved to 

 be D. vema) in Ireland, and in 1873 a list of North Cornwall 

 plants: his only other communication was a short note on Arabu 

 albida in 1890. 



Although not a critical botanist, Dr. Hind was persevering and 

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of visitors has shown that this is an extremely accurate guide to 

 the plants of the county. Dr. Hind presented to the Ipswich 

 Museum the herbarium on which this work was based. He had 

 made many additional notes to his Flora, and continued his interest 

 in botany up to his death. On the morning of Sept. 13 he left 

 home, apparently in good health, to take part in a clerical conference 

 at Walsham-le-Willows, when he suddenlv expired while addressing 

 the meeting. Dr. Hind was buried at Stapenhill. He was twice 

 married. We are indebted to one of his sons— Dr. Wheelton Hind, 

 of Stoke-on-Trent, who wrote the outline of geology prefixed to the 

 Flora of Suffolk— for much of the information contained in this 



