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the article 1 On the Diseases of Plants ' which he contributed to the 

 ' Cyclopaedia of Agriculture.' Then a multitude of articles on kindred 

 subjects, on botany and horticulture, appeared from time to time 

 in the 1 Gardener's Chronicle ' between 1840 and 1880. Unfortu- 

 nately they are not recorded in our ' Catalogue of Scientific Papers ;' 

 where, however, Berkeley is credited with upwards of a hundred 

 articles in other periodicals, up to the year 1873, since which time 

 twenty-one more are on record. 



Of Berkeley's contributions to mycology it is impossible here even 

 to enumerate the more important. By himself, and in some instances 

 in conjunction with his friend C. E. Broome, Esq., F.L.S., of Batheaston, 

 and of M. A. Curtis, for North American Fungi, he published some 

 6,000 species, including many new genera, from all parts of the 

 world, arctic, antarctic, temperate, and tropical. Of these there are 

 preserved in his own herbarium 4,886 species, that is, nearly half of 

 the whole number that the herbarium contained. In 1879 he uncon- 

 ditionally gave his mycological herbarium to Kew, and whether for 

 its extent, its extraordinary richness in types of genera and species, 

 the number of analyses made by himself with which it is enriched, 

 or the extent to which it illustrates the life history of so many of the 

 great pests of agriculture and horticulture, it is unquestionably 

 unique of its kind. But unprecedented as even his contributions to 

 systematic mycology are in importance, they are far surpassed by the 

 fact, that he was the originator of the study in this country of the 

 life history of fungi, and thus contributed largely to the development 

 of our knowledge of the biological problems now known to depend 

 for their solution on a profound study of the lowest Orders of 

 plants. 



Mr. Berkeley was a man of great refinement, an excellent classical 

 scholar, an accomplished man of letters, and an exemplary pastor. 

 In person he was tall and portly, with a noble head, and he was singu- 

 larly genial in manner. There is an excellent portrait of him in the 

 rooms of the Linnean Society. As may well be supposed, he was one 

 of the most hard working of men. For many years of his life he 

 eked out his most scanty clerical income by keeping a school of some 

 twenty or thirty boys, who, being boarders, left him only the very 

 early morning for his botanical work, which was regularly commenced 

 at 4 a.m. His life history would not be complete without a further 

 allusion to his spiritual duties. From Margate he was in 1838 bene- 

 ficed to the perpetual curacy of Apethorpe and Woodnewton, North- 

 amptonshire, the emoluments of which never exceeded £180 per 

 annum. Meanwhile, however, his merits had attracted the notice of 

 the late Dr. Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough, who had said, that if 

 ever he rose to the bench the first suitable living in his gift should 

 be bestowed on Mr. Berkeley. This did not occur till 1868, when 



