5J2 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
under cultivation, showed that Spircca Ulmaria, var. denudata, was 
a condition not due to soil variation, since it remains unchanged in 
greatly varying soils — a result which our member. Prof. Yapp, has 
recently corroborated. In one of his last papers, Beeby did 
something to unravel the tangled nomenclature and position of 
the British Burdocks. His ' herbarium has gone to the Horni- 
man Museum. His loss to British Botany is very great, and this 
Club is much the poorer in that it has lost an astute critical referee 
and a valued member. (See also ‘Journ. Bot.’ 1910, Memoir 
by Rev. E. S. Marshall, with portrait.) 
Samuel Alexander Stewart (1826 — 1910), born Feb. 5, 1826, 
died Jan. 15, 1910, and was buried in the City Cemetery, Belfast. 
His father, W. Stewart, kept a trunk-maker’s shop in North Street, 
Belfast, and for many years his son worked at the same business. 
He was a self-educated man, not having attended school or college. 
His attention was directed to geology and botany by some lectures 
given by Mr. Ralph Tate under the Science and Art Department. 
In 1880 he was appointed assistant-Curator of the Belfast Museum, 
and Curator some years later. He had a good knowledge of 
geology, but botany was his favourite subject. In 1888 he pub- 
lished his ‘Flora of North-East Ireland,’ and Appendix in 1895. 
In 1871, he became a member of the Botanical Exchange Club, 
and in the ‘Report’ for 1876, mention is made of Zannichdlia 
polycarpa^ Nolte, which he was the first to find in Britain in 1872. 
He studied mosses as well as the flowering plants, and was a good 
field botanist, and for many years gave assistance to all who were 
studying our native Flora in the north of Ireland. Hienicium 
rigidum, Hartm., var. Stezvarfii, F. J. Hanb., was named in his 
honour. C. H. Waddell. 
To the above testimony to the worth of our departed friend, 
who had been for a short time one of our Corresponding Members, 
I may add that Mr. Stewart was a Fellow of the Botanical Society 
of Edinburgh, and Hon. Assoc, of the Belfast Natural History and 
Philosophical Society. He was elected Associate of the Linnean 
Society, Feb. 18, 1904, and he contributed valuable Papers on the 
Irish Flora, including a visit to Dungiven and the Sperrin Mountains, 
to the Belfast Field Club Proceedings, Report on the Botany of the 
Isle of Rathlin, and of the mountainous portion of F ermanagh, of 
