262 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
4to., pp. xvi., 168. 30^. nett. Heinemann and Co. 75 coloured 
plates. 
The year 1907 has deprived us of two members by death, and 
the Botanical world is poorer by their loss, and by that of the other 
botanists mentioned below : — 
Henry Bromwich, eldest son of Wm. Bromwich, gardener, 
was born at Warwick on Mar. 10, 1828, and died in the adjoining 
parish of Milverton on May 28, 1907. He was early interested iu 
Botany, and while young took a number of prizes for his collections 
of wild flowers at the local horticultural shows. He was for some 
years gardener at Wroxall Abbey, the seat of Miss Wren (a descen- 
dant of Sir Christopher Wren), where he gained much of his botanical 
knowledge, the neighbourhood, especially Yarningdale Common, 
being rich in uncommon species. For many years he was a member 
of the Botanical Exchange Club, and he rendered material aid, which 
is warmly acknowledged, to Mr. Bagnall, when preparing the ‘ Flora 
of Warwickshire.’ Mr. Bromwich also for some years was honorary 
curator to the Botanical Department of the Warwick Museum, to 
which institution he expressed a wish his own Herbarium should be 
given. In the ‘Report’ of that Museum in 1904 the botanical 
collection is referred to as one of the best in the provinces, ‘ the 
Warwickshire plants are represented by a special collection, the 
work chiefly of Mr. Bromwich, a well-known and experienced local 
botanist, who still contributes to its further development.’ 
Alexander Somerville, born in Glasgow, 1842, the son of 
an eminent Missionary, Dr. A. N. Somerville, died there at Hillhead 
on June 5, 1907. His early years (after three years at the Univer- 
sity) were spent in business in that city, and also at Calcutta, where 
he lived fifteen years. On his return he graduated B.Sc. He was 
an enthusiastic worker at the marine fauna of Western Scotland, 
a member of the Conchological Society, and also one of its referees 
for Marine Mollusca, and was three years its President, and was 
also at one time President of the Glasgow Natural History Society, 
and many of his papers appeared in its Transactions. He was 
elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881. He greatly 
interested himself in the Topographical Botany of Scotland, at which 
he did much excellent work. For many years he was a valued 
