192 OBITUARY. 
examination for botany, a study to which he yt Fahd devoted. 
While at Weymouth he carefully examined the botany of the 
i lo n ch hi 
the Phytologist, N.S., ii. 601-9 (1858). About 1862 he went to 
Florence, to take part i in a pharmacy then recently established ; of 
this he soon rn as the proprietor, and his shop was a well-known 
resort for English-speaking residents. Here he resided until his 
death, which took place on the 1st of March; he was buried in the 
orence. 
roves became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1884, 
and his principal contribution to science appeared in its Journa 
ae! i he 
gisa after his wife, a Genoese lady, whom he married in 1871, and 
who shared in his botanical tastes and excursions. These latter, 
says the Prarmancal Journal of March 28, “ were undertaken 
uring summer, when business at Florence comes to an aera 
apes standstill, and were often continued for six weeks 
stretch, the most out-of-the-way and unexplored ostaes ete 
chosen for investigation. In turn were visited te Argentaro, 
e Maremma, the Abruzzi (including Monte ee Monte 
Majella, &c.), the perpen Alps, Monte Gioja, the Appenines, South 
Italy (including Otranto, Taranto ae Gallipoli, Sicily and Tunis). 
ome of these trips exposed the y to considerable privations, 
spébie by means of nytt, with the numerous small exchange 
societies to which he was affiliated. At the time of his death the 
total number of specimens in his herbarium amounted to close 
upon 50,000, the ues and custody of which had absorbed 
of his a ime. The whole of ren Seg the 
