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he knew the plants of North-East Ireland extremely well, as his 
Flora testifies; he too had been a member since 1875. The Rev. 
W. H. Painter was also an old and valued member, and a regular 
contributor of plants for Exchange. These three members are 
a real loss to the Club, and British Botany is the poorer for their 
death. 
William Hadden Beeby (1849 — 1910). Born June 9th, 1849, 
died at Thames Ditton, January 4th, 1910, Fellow of the Micro- 
scopical Society, and on May 5th, 1887, was elected an Associate of 
the Linnean Society, of which he became Fellow in 1890. He had 
been a member of this Club since 1879, acted as Distributor 
and Editor in 1882 and 1895. His knowledge of British plants 
was extensive and accurate, his work at them was painstaking and 
minute, and his experience in field-work led him to be an exceed- 
ingly good judge not only as to the value of the variation of a plant 
but as to its status in our flora. Few botanists have been so 
rewarded by successful discoveries, but even allowing for luck, they 
testify to his careful and painstaking work. The western peninsula 
gave him Juncus capitatus.,^€\g., and J. pygmaits, Rich. (‘Journ. 
337 ? 1872); his own county, towards a Flora of which he 
had accumulated a large mass of material, yielded the hybrid Equi- 
setum litorale, Kiihl. (‘Journ. Bot.’ 54, 1886), while he added as 
a new species to science Sparganium neglectum (‘Journ. Bot.’ 26, 
1885). His researches are embodied in his able article on ‘ Botany ’ 
in the Victoria County History of Surrey. 
He repeatedly visited the islands of the Shetland group, and 
there he made many interesting discoveries — among them Coch- 
learia groenlandica, L. (‘Journ. Bot.’ 235, 1895), Fhinanthus groen- 
lajidicus, Chab., and Taraxacum spectabile, Dahlst, (‘Ann. Scot. 
Nat. Hist.’ 234, 1907), Fotamogeton pectmatus, var. fluviatilis, 
Sch. and Mart. {F. vaginatus, Turc.) (‘Journ. Bot.’ 172, 1907), 
besides new forms of Hieracia, — H. breve, H. zetlandicum, 
H. subtruncatum, H. Schmidtii, var. fealense, H. dovrense, var. 
hethlandiae, H. devussum, var. austrahus, H. strictum, var. coh- 
<restum, and var. vinaceum, and Taraxacum spectabile, var, Geir- 
hildce. 
At one time he studied the violets with much care ; he proved 
the inconstancy of the leaf-colour in the Unst Cerastium nigrescens 
