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Report, 1903, p. 31. This should be altered to Bromus brizae- 
FORMis, Fisch. and Mey., an addition to Dunn’s ‘ Alien Flora 
of Britain.’ 
Mr. Cedric Bucknall directed my attention to the error. 
We have to lament the loss of the veteran botanist, Mr. W. 
Phillips, F.L.S., who was born at Presteigne, Radnor, on May 4, 
1822, and who died at Shrewsbury on Oct. 22, 1905. He was 
a good fungologist, and published a ‘ Manual of British Discomy- 
cetes’ in 1887. He had a considerable knowledge of the British 
flowering plants. The Secretary once had the benefit of his genial 
and kindly guidance to Bomere, in an unsuccessful search for 
Scheuchzena, which had been extirpated by a too greedy col- 
lector. 
Another loss to Field Botany is that created by the death 
of the Rev. T. A. Preston, F.L.S., who was born at West- 
minster, Oct. 10, 1838, and died at Thurcaston, Leicestershire, 
on Feb. 6, 1905. He published a ‘Flora of Marlborough’ in 
1863, and the ‘Flowering Plants of Wiltshire’ in 1888. After 
he removed to Leicestershire he did considerable work at the 
flora of that county. He was a man of whose friendship any 
one might have felt proud. 
Frederick Townsend, M.A., F.L.S., of Honington Hall, 
formerly M.P. for Warwickshire, was born at Rawmarsh, York- 
shire, Dec. 5, 1822, and died Dec. 16, 1905. By his death this 
Club loses one of its most valued members, and a referee on 
the critical genus Euphrasia^ the knowledge of which in Britain 
may be said to be owing to his zeal, assiduity, and critical ob- 
servation. He was the author of many important papers in the 
‘Journal of the Linnean Society,’ and in the ‘Journal of Botany.’ 
He wrote the ‘ Flora of Hampshire,’ published in 1883, a second 
edition of which appeared in 1904, and was referred to in 
the last Report. All these works are of exceptional excellence. 
He contributed to Seeman’s ‘ Journ. Bot.’ 1864, a paper on ‘ The 
Flora of the Scilly Isles.’ He also wrote the article on Botany 
for the ‘ Victoria County History ’ for Hants. His name is per- 
petuated in Spartina Townsendi^ H. & J. Groves, Trifolium 
repens ^ L., var. Townsendii, Bab., the last found by him in the 
