[Smith. 
430 Botanical Necrology for 1888. 
Dictionary of Popular names of the plants which furnish the natural 
and acquired wants of man in all matters of domestic and general 
economy. London, Macmillan, 1882. 
JOHN THOMAS IRVINE BOSWELL SYME (afterwards 
BOSWELL) 1 . Born at Edinburgh, December 1st, 1822. Died 
at Balmuto, Fife, January 31st, 1888. Educated at Dollar 
Academy and University of Edinburgh. Civil Engineer. 
Curator of the Botanical Society of London, 1851. Lecturer on 
Botany, Charing Cross Medical School, 1854-1867, at the 
Westminster Medical School, 1855-1867, at the Free Church 
College, Edinburgh, 1868. Editor with Hewett Watson of 5th, 
6th, and 7th editions London Catalogue of British Plants. 
Biographical notice by Baker, in Journal of Botany, 1888. 
Published : — 
Notice of some of the rarer plants observed in Orkney during the 
Summer of 1849 . Ann. Nat. Hist. V (1850). Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin IV 
(1851). 
Notice of the occurrence of Eleocharis uniglumis , Link, near Blackness 
Castle, Linlithgowshire. Ann. Nat. Hist. VI (1850), 
English Botany. 3rd edition, 1863-72. 
On the Sparganium natans L., Pr. Henfrey’s Bot. Gazette, III (1851). 
Localities for Plants near London, in 1852 . Phytologist, IV (1853). 
Remarks on Gladiolus Illyricus , Koch, and its allies. Seemann, Journ. 
Bot. I (1863). 
Observations on the Larva of Deilephila. Entom. Month. Mag. II 
(1865-66). 
Entomological Notes from Pifeshire. Entomologist, IV (1868-69). 
Note on the Fertilization of Cereals. Journ. Bot. IX (1871). 
Acentropus niveus in Scotland, 1870 . Scottish Naturalist, I (1871-72). 
Notes on certain Scottish Plants. Ibid. 
Fertilization of Grasses. Journ. Botany, I (1872). 
Reports of the Curator of the Bot. Exchange Club for 1869 - 1874 . Ibid. 
VIII (1870)— XIII (1875). 
Also papers in ‘ Treasury of Botany ’ signed I. T. S. 
JOSEPH JEAN THEREY 2 . Born at Buis-Cour (Isere), February 
14, 1833. Died at Lyon, September 15, 1888. Educated at 
Toiron. Banker. Mycologist. Biographical notice by Roume- 
guere in Revue Mycologique, No. 40, 1888. Published: — 
Fungi exsiccati. 
1 The Editors are indebted to Mrs. Boswell for information about Dr. Boswell. 
2 The Editors are indebted to the Secretary of the Societe Botanique de Lyon 
for information about M. Therry. 
