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occupation he was a hard-working banker, and for many years, 
he acted as treasurer to the Linnean Society. His herbarium 
collected in many parts of England and Wales, is now in 
the British Museum. It contains the earliest specimens of 
Mycetozoa from the county of Essex that we possess. He 
died at the age of 83 of cholera, caught while Yisiting a Refuge 
for destitute people which he and his brothers had founded. 
His name is commemorated among plants in the Wood-rush, 
Luzula Forsteri. 
James Sowerby, whose beautiful illustrations of flowering 
plants in Smith’s English Botany are well known, published 
between 1797 and 1809 Figures of English Fungi and Mushrooms 
wherein some charming portraits of Mycetozoa appear. 
Very good illustrations of nineteen species of Mycetozoa are 
also to be seen in R. K. Greville’s Scottish Cryptogamic Flora,. 
published between 1823 and 1829, a work which was never 
completed for lack of lunds. Of Greville, the Rev. Miles Berkeley 
wrote a few years later :—“ Almost the whole credit of any 
knowledge ot fungi which exists at present in this country is 
due to the exertions of Dr. Greville, whose admirable publica¬ 
tions have at least induced a better mode of study, if they 
have not as yet raised so many students as might have been 
expected from his labours, That his great work containing 
certainly the most beautiful plates ever published, and which 
has been duly appreciated by all the highest authorities, should 
not have met with a support sufficient to ensure its continuance, 
is too lamentable a proof that such an indifference to the study 
of fungi does exist.” 
It is to Berkeley, whose zeal did much to remove that in¬ 
difference to mycology, that we owe the first masterly and com¬ 
prehensive book on fungi that appeared in this country. Born 
at Oundle, in Northamptonshire, he was educated at Rugby, 
and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he took holy orders. 
He obtained a curacy at Margate and there, besides devoting 
himself conscientiously to professional duties, spent his leisure 
in natural history pursuits. Although he seems to have had 
no training in science beyond what he gained by his own studies, 
his knowledge of fungi won so high a repute that, in 1833, he 
was asked by Sir William Hooker to write the volume on that 
subject for Smith’s English Flora, of the cryptogamic section 
