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supervision of Mr Peter Churton, the Headmaster. In later years he 

 joined the South London Microscopical and Natural History Club of 

 which he was Secretary from 1884-1897, when it was dissolved. He 

 discovered Vertigo Moulinsiana, new to Britain, which he beautifully 

 figured in the Trans. Herefordshire Nat. Hist. Soc, 812, 1882. In 

 1877 in conjunction with his brother, still happily with us, he began 

 to study Charaeeae. The first note on these plants appeared in Journ. 

 Bot. 1878, when Chara connivens was recorded as a British plant. 

 In 1880 the brothers published in the same Journal the Review of the 

 British Charaeeae, the drawings being entirely made by Henry Groves. 

 In 1892 the first set of the Charaeeae Britannicae Exsiceatae was 

 issued, consisting of beautifully prepared specimens, the second 

 appearing in 1900. In 1 892 Chara tenuissima was added to the Irish 

 Flora, and in the same year Henry Groves became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, serving on the Council from 1899 to 1902, and again 

 in 1911, till the time of his death. In 1904, in conjunction with his 

 brother, he edited the ninth edition of Babingtonis Manual. In 1907 

 he became a Trustee of the South London Botanical Institute, and in 

 1910 acted as Delegate of the Linnean Society at the International 

 Botanical Congress. (See also Dr Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 59, 1913.) 

 His views on Nomenclature were sound, being based on uniformity 

 of practice, and logical treatment, and it is greatly to be regretted 

 that he was not at the Congress at Vienna, when so much that is un- 

 fair and arbitrary was adopted. In 1911 the account of the Chara- 

 eeae in Professor Urban's Symbolae Antillanae was contributed by the 

 brothers Groves. He bore a long and wearisome illness (tuberculosis) 

 with characteristic courage and patience. His premature death 

 brought a feeling of personal loss to a large circle of friends. The 

 foregoing is a brief abstract of a memoir of him by Mr J ames Groves 

 which with his portrait appeared in Journ. Bot. 73, 1913. Among 

 the Botanical papers written by Henry Groves either by himself or in 

 conjunction with his brother are the following : — Revision British 

 Charaeeae in Journ. Bot. 1880, pp. 97-103, 129-135, 161-167. Chara 

 obtusa Desv., Journ. Bot. 1881, pp. 1-3. Notes on British Charaeeae, 

 Journ. Bot 1881, 353-356; 1883, 20-23 ; 1884, 1 ; 1885, 81 ; 1886, 1; 

 1887, 146; 1889, 65; 1895,289; 1898, 409. Ranunculus ophioglossi- 

 folius in Hants Journ. Bot. 1 882, 51 ; Spartina Townsendi, nova species, 

 Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 1880, 37 ; and Journ. Bot. 1882, 1. Rosa 

 tomentosa var. Woodsiana, Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 1880, 30, a 



