.ENEAS MACINTYRE. 
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of interest in the paper is, however, its allusion to a boggy wood 
on the eastern side of the Common, in which grew (he says) 
Osmunda regalis, whose large and beautiful fronds—“ the 
‘‘nearest. British approach to the palms of the South—rise in 
“ thousands in the interior of this otherwise uninteresting wood.” 
To-day, it may be doubted whether a single genuinely-wild 
plant of Osmunda grows within the bounds of the County of 
Essex; for the plant has been completely exterminated, I 
believe, from its former habitats in the woods around Danbury 
and Woodham Walter and in Epping Forest, where it once grew 
abundantly. Curiously enough, Gibson utilized, in his Flora 
of Essex (1862), none of the records given in MacIntyre’s paper. 
Why this was, I cannot imagine ; for it is clear (see op. cit., p. 
xxii.) that Gibson knew of its existence. 
Apparently, this paper was the only original contribution 
to Natural Science MacIntyre ever published. At all events, 
no paper by him (not even this), is given in the Royal Society’s 
great Catalogue of Scientific Papers, *1800-1863 (1870). 
What MacIntyre’s connection with the Warley district may 
have been I know not. I had surmised that he might have held 
some such post as that of chaplain, tutor, or secretary in the 
household of Lord Petre, at Thorndon Hall ; but Miss Willmott, 
of Warley, who has been good enough to institute enquiries, has 
failed altogether to learn that any man of his name ever held any 
post therein. Yet the thoroughness of the article suggests 
that his acquaintance with the Common and its flora was due to 
something more than a mere holiday visit. 
At the meeting of the Botanical Society, held on 20th April 
1837, MacIntyre occupied the chair. 
MacIntyre was a “ Compounder ” at the Linnean ; and, as 
is often the case with such, the Society never knew what became 
of him ; but he was lost sight of there after 1843. Messrs. Britten 
& Boulger seem, however, to have had evidence (the nature of 
which they do not disclose) that he was still living as late as i860. 
Can any member supply further biographical matter regard¬ 
ing him ? 
