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been contributed, they were posted to the more active collectois, 
and to all the newer members. Any suggestions about a future 
Desiderata List will be thankfully received. 
A few Scotch and Irish members are especially needed, but 
we welcome eight fresh subscribers, several being introduced 
through the energy of Mr. Sherrin. 
On going to press we deeply regret to hear of the death on 
June 2nd, of Mr. Edw. A. Wilson, of Bristol and Birmingham : 
a very remarkable, unselfish, and modest man. An Appreciation 
which appeared on June 4th in the two Bristol morning journals, 
may be quoted here. Strenuous business and other calls pre- 
vented Mr. Wilson from contributing specimens since he joined 
our ranks. We are indebted to Mr. J. II. Matthews, M.A., of 
Edinburgh, for kindly writing an excellent notice of the late 
Win. Barclay; and to Mr. Britten for allowing the reproduction 
of a short note on our old member. Hy. T. Mennell. 
H. S. THOMPSON, Hon. Sec. 
Report 1922 — 23, p. 218. — Centaurea nemoralis, var. neva- 
densis.— Coll. Miss Roper. “ Coming under my var. subintegra of 
0. nemoralis Jord. I agree with Mr. Lacaita that the specimens 
seem intermediate between C. nemoralis and C. pratensis. Pre- 
sumably it is but an individual variation of the former.” — C. E. 
Britton. 
WILLIAM BARCLAY (1846-1923). 
By the death of William Barclay, which occurred with unex- 
pected suddenness at his residence in Perth on 10th May, 1923, 
British Botany has sustained a loss it could ill afford, and the 
Watson Botanical Exchange Club one of its most helpful members. 
He was born at Tnlloch, near Perth, 19th March, 1846, and 
at the National School in that town he received his early educa- 
tion before proceeding to Edinburgh, where he qualified at the 
Church of Scotland Training College for the profession of 
teaching which he had elected to follow. His first scholastic 
appointment took him to Banffshire, and although he remained 
there only five years, he formed an attachment for the North which 
he never relinquished. In 1871 he returned to his native city 
as Headmaster of Watergate School, and while there he pur- 
chased his first copy of Babington’s “Manual,” the “Flora” he 
