108 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
history of our native plants little use is made of Mr. Clement 
Reid’s Origin of the Br tis * Flora, which seems to us pi cig 
to anyone writing on the subjec 
he work is illustrated by forty- aut figures, which have been 
in almost every case either drawn from nature, photographed direct 
from the plant, or sketched on the chckitead (from microscope 
when are, and then photographed 
W e derived considerable pleasure from _ readable little 
rnchts ai trust that it will have a good circulat 
G.B: 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Ricuarp CHANDLER ALEXANDER Prior, = ra at his London 
residence in York Terrace, Regent’s Park, the 8th of last 
December, was born at Corsham in Wiltchirg, inn 6,1809. H 
was a descendant of Matthew Prior, the poet, was educated at 
Charterhouse and Oxford, and became Fellow of the Royal Col lege 
of Physicians in 1840. He soon siaiaonad medical practice, 
and in 1841 took up his residence at Gratz, where he devote 
himself to the grey of botany. Here he lived about three years, 
during which he visited Croatia, Dalmatia, Italy, and Sicily. In 
1846 he went to Sonth Africa, where he stayed two years; in 1849 
he went to Canada and thence to Jamaica, where he spent about a 
year, during whi ah he investigated the Blue Mountains and the 
north of the island, and formed a considerable agian In 1849 
cations as linguist, Spires and folklorist combine = render 
i stan 
bra insufficient et In this subject Prior semibs continued 
Misers. Britten and Holland when compiling their Dictionar ry of 
English Plant Names. His botanical publications were not numerous; 
ay include two papers on botanical excursions in Styria, published 
in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, and notes on the botan ny of Jamaica 
in Hooker’s Journal of Botany for 1850, His = oe is, na tar 
selnowledged by Harvey in the Flora Capensis, and Gris 
speaks of him as ‘‘ one of the chief prididiers” of his Flora spr = 
