Obituary Notices. 
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a very low state of health, and about the years 1880 and 1881 had 
to undergo several painful operations, under which his friends were 
afraid he would succumb. Thanks, however, to the skill of a 
Manchester surgeon, in whose care he was, and for whom he had 
the most grateful regard, he rallied, and was for several years longer 
able to pursue his favourite studies, but never with the same 
ardour ; and what with difficulties with his publisher, and his 
enfeebled health requiring conserving to continue his professional 
duties, he seemed to shrink from the task of completing his beauti- 
ful and valuable work, although friends had proffered to assist him. 
In 1876 he spent some time in the neighbourhood of the 
Trossachs, and there made what Dr Spruce describes as one of his 
happiest finds, Hygrobiella myrioccirpa. This he published, with 
several other new species, in the Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin ., vol. xiii., 
1879. 
In 1878 we issued the first part of our ITep. Brit. Exsicc., in 
the preparation of which Dr Carrington took great delight. Four 
fasciculi were issued, representing nearly all the British species, 
and between 17,000 and 18,000 specimens distributed. 
In 1886 two Manchester botanical friends, who had gone to the 
Antipodes — Mr Thomas Whi'telegge to New South Wales, Mr R. 
Bastow to Tasmania — sent large collections of hepaticae, which we 
studied together. The results were published : those of Mr White- 
legge’s collection in Pro. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., illustrated by twelve 
plates, the cost of which was generously defrayed by the late Sir 
William MacLeay ; those of Mr Bastow in the Proc. Boy. Soc. of 
Tasmania for 1887. These were the two last papers published by 
Dr Carrington. 
In the same year he was elected a Corresponding Member of the 
Linnean Society of New South Wales and of the Royal Society 
of Tasmania. On the resignation of the first President, Mr John 
Whitehead, he was elected President of the Manchester Crypto- 
gamic Society, which position he held till his death. 
In 1874 he was elected F.R.S.E., and he was at one. time 
F.L.S. 
The following British Hepaticse were either found or identified 
as British by him 
Cesia cremdata (Gott.), sent to Dr Gottsche as a new species. 
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