346 THR BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Middlesex, and in the delightful Buckinghamshire country which lies 
between Uxbridge and Beaconsfield, about Denham, Langley, and 
the Chalfonts. He contributed several notes of considerable interest 
to the ‘Journal of Botany' on the flora of Middlesex, to which 
county he added several species. He kindly gave me a list of his 
Buckinghamshire records, several of which are the earliest known. 
He was of good stature and handsome bearing, of keen intellectual 
tastes, and had a quick insight into character. He had a strong 
will, and an independent judgment, and keenly resented any unfair 
treatment. A striking instance of this will be found in his note- 
book. It was always a pleasure to visit him even in late years, as 
when his walking powers had given out, he was usually to be found 
with his one available eye examining Mosses with keen delight. 
Then as his eyesight failed, he took up Horticulture with zeal. 
His Herbarium and MSS. have been given to the National 
Herbarium at South Kensington. 
The Rev. Richard Paget Murray. Born on Dec. ahtli, 1842, 
at Thornton, Isle of Man. Died Oct. 29, 1908. Graduated from 
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, being first in the First Class 
Natural Science Tripos in 1867. He was ordained in 1868, and 
held Curacies at Plymstock, 1868-71, and Beckenham from 1874 — 
1877, and he had the sole charge of Baltonsborough, Somerset, from 
1878 — 1882, and since 1883 has been Vicar of Shapwick, Dorset. 
In 1882 he was elected F.L.S. He has been for many years 
a valued member of this Club, He worked witli considerable 
assiduity at the Flora of Portugal, from which country he named 
several new species, and still later at the Flora of the Canaries, 
from which he also described several new species. With the Rev. 
W. M. Moyle Rogers and the Revs. E. F. and W. R. Linton, he 
issued a set of British Rubi, and himself described A', durotri- 
gnm, which has been distributed by him through the Club. In 
1896, he published the ‘ Flora of Somerset,’ and was a willing 
helper in Mansel Pleydell’s second edition of the ‘ Dorset Flora.’ 
On Professor Balfour vacating tlie Sherardian Chair of Botany at 
Oxford, Mr. Murray was anxious to enter the list of aspirants, but 
on his learning that there was no hope for a systematist, I do not 
think he actually sent in an application. He had an agreeable 
personality, and his death creates a very perceptible loss to British 
