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artistic skill. Dr. ’s botanical career ranges over eighteen 
years. He was always very reticent in sending papers for painting 
or drawings for publication,* as he did not esteem his own abilities. 
He replied, with a gay laugh, “Don’t you see, I never try to improve 
Nature, but carefully copy all her accidents.” ersons who have 
own Dr. Bull—who died in the month he loved—will keep him 
in pleasant memory till death, and no one will remember him more 
pleasantly and affectionately than the writer of these lines.—W. G. 
Smire,  - 
In Joun Morris, who died on J anuary 7th, within six months 
of completing his seventy-sixth year, English Geology lost its most 
eminent teacher. Distinguished chiefly as a paleontologist, his 
‘Magazine of Natural History’ “A Systematic Catalogue of the 
Fossil Plants of Britain”; and in the ‘Annals of Natural History’ 
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Lesquereux ; and, jointly with Dr. Thomas Oldham, contributed 
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_ Morris was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery on January 13th, in 
the presence of a small but representative group of his scientific 
friends.—G. §. Bouner. 
*[Most of his work appeared in the ‘Transactions of the Woolhope Club, ’ 
from which his interesting paper on “The Mistletoe in Herefordshire” was 
_ Teprinted, with corrections by the author, in this Journal for December, 1864. 
His only other contribution to our pages was a short paper on the occurrence of 
_ Cortinarius russus in Britain (Journ. Bot. 1870, 272).—Ep. Joury. Bor.] 
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