164 WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 
pen ; _— it may be allowable here to record an expression of 
my own grateful sense of his can Sere = disinterested zeal in 
reception they met with somewhat surprised those who had pre- 
viously known him only through his writings. In January, 1881, 
an absurd rumour as to wn authorship of ‘ English Botany,’ ed. 3, 
was the occasion of a letter from Mr. Watson to Mr 
which, with a chaselouce reply, will be found in this Journal for 
1881, p. 89. He did not say much about it, but he was manifestly 
pained by the somewhat harsh tone of the letter, which, — ne 
answer, he circulated widely among British botanists. He sen 
copy to Dr. Boswell, who, Mr. Watson thought, might have eas 
injured by the rumour; but this was ane! scknowledged, to 
Newbould’s great regret. Mr. Boulger writes :-—* Mr. ewbould 
used to say that he believed he might ike ‘acodih to himecl for 
having to some _ brought Mr. Syme and ‘English Botany’ 
together, since, knowing that Mr. Suse was meditating some inde- 
pendent work on British veo and that the proprietors of ‘ Engli 
any’ were intending to issue a new edition of that work, which 
might have fallen into ate thoroughly oo hands, he persu 
Mr. Syme to undertake the work and t e publishers to entrust it to 
him.” He was one of those who = aah Mr. Watson's grave at 
coach, and his shoulder was put out. I found a doctor at once 
(thank God) and got it put in, and we returned to Largo, where 
Prof. Goodsir was visiting his brotlier, and took charge of W. W. N-» 
keeping him there for several weeks. Then we returned to England 
When Babington was preparing his ‘ Revision of the 
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