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member of this Club, his specimens being always very carefully 
prepared. He also contributed papers to the Botanical Society of 
Edinburgh. He had a charming personality, and was an excellent 
correspondent. See ‘Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.,’ p. 195, 1907, where 
there is a portrait. 
Edward Arthur Lionel Batters, born at Enfield, Dec. 26, 
i860, died at Gerrard’s Cross, Bucks, Aug. ri, 1907, educated at 
Kings Coll. School, London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Pub- 
fished in 1890 in the ‘Annals of Botany’ with E. M. Holmes 
a ‘ Revised List of the British Marine Algae,’ and in 1902 the 
Catalogue of the British Marine Algae ’ as a ‘ Supplement to the 
Journ. Bot.’ His herbarium consists of upwards of 10,000 British 
specimens. Battersia was established by Reinke in 1890 in his 
honour. 
Otto Kuntze, died Jan. 28, 1907, in his 64th year at 
San Remo. He was a good systematist as well as a profound 
student of Botanical Nomenclature. He was a chemist by pro- 
fession, and he published as long ago as 1867 his ‘ Flora of Leipzic ’ 
and a critical revision of the German ‘Rubi.’ He monographed 
the genus Clematis in ‘ Verhandlungen der Prov. Brandenburg.’ 
His important work ‘ Revisio Generum Plantarum ’ was issued in 
1891-8, and included not only his views on nomenclature, which 
aroused a strenuous opposition, but also a description of the 
numerous species noticed on his foreign travels. In 1904 he, in 
conjunction with Dr. Post, issued a valuable botanical ‘ Lexicon,’ 
and numerous contributions, chiefly of a polemic character, have 
been made from time to time. His views did not receive the 
respect they should have met with at the Vienna Congress, about 
which he spoke with no bated breath. He had an important library 
at his pleasant villa at San Remo, where, although very deaf, he was 
a kind and interesting host. His copies of the rare first edition 
of Linnaeus’ ‘Species Plantarum,’ and the still more scarce ‘Systema’ 
of 17355 have been acquired by the library of the Oxford Botanic 
Gardens. 
Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., born at Canterbury, April 15, 
1833, died at Ealing, May 30, 1907, educated at King’s College, 
London, M.D., Sub-Curator of the Fielding Herbarium at Oxford, 
