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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Mr Edward Arthur Lionel Batters, LL.B., F.L.S. 



By Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Ayton. 



In the death of Mr Edward A. L. Batters, barrister-at-law, 

 the Ckib has sustained a serious loss, inasmuch as he was 

 their only recognised authority upon Sea-weeds, and had 

 attained to considerable distinction on account of his diligent 

 and accurate research in this special department of scientific 

 study. 



Born at Enfield, Middlesex, in 1860, he was in the habit of 

 spending a part of each year of his boyhood with his relatives 

 in Berwick on Tweed, where he was inspired by his mother 

 with a taste for the exploration of the sea-shore and the collection 

 of its manifold treasures. With the view of entering on an 

 academical course he placed himself under the care of a tutor 

 in this Border town, and during his spare time pi-osecuted his 

 studies in the estuary of the Tweed, acquii-ing such knowledge 

 of the local Alga3 as in time to be associated with many 

 of the expert writers and lecturers on the subject. Having 

 entered Cambridge Univei-sity and proceeded to the degrees 

 of B.A. and LL.B., he was at length called to the Bar at 

 Lincoln's Inn ; but possessing little inclination to follow a 

 legal career, and being in no way dependent upon his profession, 

 he devoted himself to the study of British Marine Algye. 



