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he collected, he described as new only one form, subcoriifolia, a 
variety of the aggregate R. coriifolia. His account appeared in 
Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899, and other papers on Scottish Roses 
may be found in the same Journal for 1896. 
In every way Barclay’s botanical work was marked by a 
painstaking endeavour to reach the truth. One finds evidence 
of his extreme caution in his short notes on specimens submitted 
through this Exchange Club, of which he was a member, and a 
Referee on Roses since 1907. 
His visits to the South were infrequent, but he was known 
to many who visited him in his home in Perth as one possessing 
the gift of kindness, ever ready to assist the beginner or others 
who sought his help. He was a true Scot, fond of his native 
Scotland, fonder still of his native Perthshire. In the open field 
he was veritably happy, and it was there that one got to know 
him at his best. 
Barclay was elected A.L.S. on 3rd May, 1923, an honour of 
which he was extremely proud. How pathetic that he should have 
enjoyed it for but one short week ! His wife died only a few 
months before, and very greatly he felt the loss of one who had 
been a life-long companion. 
J. R. Matthews. 
HENRY TUKE MENNELL (1835-1923). 
By the death of II. T. Mennell on December 9, 1923, we 
lose yet another Quaker naturalist, who gained his inspiration 
and early training at the well-known Friends’ School at York, 
which celebrated its centenary last June, where he was the oldest 
Bootham Scholar alive, having been born at Scarborough in 1835. 
For many years Mennell was a prominent and useful mem- 
ber of the Society of Friends (his mother was a Tuke); he took 
a particular and very practical interest in education, and was 
successively secretary, chairman, and treasurer of the Friends’ 
Education Committee. Before he left Newcastle in 1861, where 
incidentally he was secretary of the Northumberland and Dur- 
ham Nat. Hist. Soc., his collections of English shells and herbairum 
of British flowering plants were already excellent and fairly 
complete. However, when the Watson Bot. Exch. Club was 
started in 1884 he became a member, and remained so until 1918. 
A few notes were contributed by him to the Journal of Botany 
many years ago, but he published little else of botanical interest. 
As long ago as 1863 he became F.L.S., retiring only in 1923. 
