344 the botanical exchange club of the British isles. 
mentarum Tertiimi .... mdccci usque ad finem annis mdcccv 
complectus .... Oxon : Clarendon Press, qto., pp. 193. Sj. 
In this Supplement an important departure from the earlier 
volumes is made, namely in keeping as distinct genera Alstne, 
Gymnadenia, Viorna, Melandryum, Vitis Idaea, &^c. 
OBITUARIES. 
The year 1908 has deprived us of four members by death, and 
the Club and British Botany suffer severely by the loss, notably of 
the Rev. W. R. Linton, M.A. 
Rev. W. R. Linton. Born April 2, 1850, at Uiddington 
Vicarage, Hunts. Died at Shirley Vicarage, Derby, January 4, 
1908. He was the 5th son of Canon Linton, of Oxford. Entered 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1869. Married, in 1886, Miss Alice 
Shirley, of Oxford. He was a most valued member of this Club, 
and acted as Distributor and Editor of Report in 1897, 1899, and 
1906. He added Rubus durescens to the Rubi, and collaborated 
with his brother, the Rev. R. P. Murray, and the Rev. W. Moyle 
Rogers in issuing the Set of British Rubi. Afterwards, with his 
brother, he issued the Set of British IVi/iows, and the Set of British 
Hieracia. He published the Flora of Derbyshire in 1903, and in 
1905 he issued an Account of the British Hieracia.^ and for some 
years acted as our critical adviser for this difficult genus as well 
as for the Salices. He described a Helleborine under the name 
Epipactis alroviridis^ besides numerous species of Hieracia. Our 
last ‘ Desiderata ’ list was also drawn up by him. See ‘ Journ. Bot.’ 
p. 65, with portrait. 
Mr. George Nicholson, of Kew, an old member of the Club. 
Born at Ripon, Dec. 7, 1847. Died at Richmond, Sep. 20, 1908. 
He obtained appointment in the Office in Royal Garden, Kew, 
1873. Published notes on Cardamine pratensis and Spergula 
arvensis, when he first clearly pointed out to British botanists the 
essential differences between Spergula arvensis and S. sativa. He 
added a new hybrid, Scutellaria galericulata x minor = S. Nichol- 
soni, Taubert (see Verhandl. Frov. Brand., xxviii. p. 25, t. 2) to 
