[Ball. 
450 Botanical Necrology for 1889 . 
JOHN BALL 1 . Born at Dublin, August 20, 1818. Died at 
London, October 21, 1889. Educated at Oscott and Christ’s 
College, Cambridge. Barrister. Assistant Poor Law Com- 
missioner, 1846 and 1849. M.P. for Carlow, 1852-1857. 
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1855-1857. Editor 
of £ Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers/ First President of Alpine Club. 
Biographical Notices by Thiselton Dyer in Journal of Botany, 
1889, an d by Sir Joseph Hooker in Proceedings Royal Geo- 
graphical Society, Vol. XII. No. 2, February 1890. .Published : — 
Botanical notes of a tour in Ireland, with notices of some new British 
Plants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II (1839). 
Notes on the Botany of Sicily. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XI (1843). 
On some British species of the genus Oenanthe. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
XIV (1844) ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. II (1846). 
On rendering the Electric Telegraph subservient to Meteorological 
Beseareh. Brit. Ass. Rep. 1848. 
Notice of the former existence of small glaciers in the County of Kerry. 
Journ. Geol. Soc. Dubl. IV (1848-50). 
On Odontites rttbra , Pers., and the allied forms, including a notice of a 
new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV (1849). 
Descriptions of new and more accurately discriminated species of 
Odontites growing wild in Britain. Henfrey Bot. Gaz. 1849. 
Notes on some British forms of the genus Thalictrum. Ibid. 
On the Elora of South Wales. Ibid. 
Description of a new species of Veronica. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. V (1850). 
Odontites verna , Keieh., and its allies. Ibid. 
Outlines of a monograph of the genus Leontodon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
VI (1850). 
Botanical Notes of an Excursion through Portugal and Spain. Henfrey 
Bot. Gaz. 1851, 
On the Structure of G-laciers. Phil. Mag. XVII (1857). 
On the Veined Structure of Glaciers. Ibid. 1859. 
Note sur quelques Cruciferes. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, VII (i860). 
Alpine Guide, 1860 - 1865 . 
On the determination of height by means of the Barometer. Brit. Ass. 
Rep. 1862. 
On thermometric observations in the Alps. Ibid. 
On the formation of Alpine Valleys and Alpine Lakes. Phil. Mag. XXV 
(1863). 
On the formation of Alpine Lakes. Ibid. XXVI (1863). 
A Guide to the Eastern Alps. London, 1868. 
Notes on the Botany of the district of Bormio. 
On the cause of the descent of glaciers. Phil. Mag. XL (1870). 
Notice of soundings executed in the Lake of Como, with a view to 
determine the form of its bed. Geol. Mag. VIII (1871). 
On the cause of the motion of glaciers. Phil. Mag. XLI (1871). 
1 The Editors are indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for information about Mr, Ball. 
