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192 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.
Flora' {Desmazeria balearica, D. triticea, spp. nn.l. — G. v. Lagerheim,
Puccinta Bdumleri, n, sp.—K. Bauer, ' Untersuohungen iiber
gerbstofffiihrende Pflanzen.' — J. Breidler, ' Zur Moosflora der
Bukowina und Siebenbiirgens.' — J. Dorfler, 'Zur Geiasskryptogamenflora
der Bukowina.'
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.
May 1, 1890.—Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., Vice-President in the
chair. The Eev. J. Tait Scott was admitted, and Messrs. J. H.
Garrett and John Young, were elected Fellows ; Dr. E. von Eegel,
of St. Petersburg, and Mr. Sereno Watson, of Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., being elected Foreign Members.—Mr. Miller
Christy exliibited and made remarks on specimens of the so-called
Bardfield Oxlip, which he had found growing abundantly not only
in the neighbourhood of Bardfield, Essex, but over a considerable
area to the N. and W. of it.—Mr. Sherring exhibited a series of
excellent photographs which he had taken near Falmouth, which
showed the effects of climatic influence on the growth of several
subtropical and rare plants cultivated in the open air.
OBITUARY.
Joshua Clarke, F.L.S., who died at Saffron Walden in February
last, was born April 10th, 1805, at that place, and always resided
there. From early life he devoted a great part of his time to the
study of Natural History, and was one of the promoters of the
Saffron Walden Museum, which was one of the best local museums
in the country half a century ago. Joshua Clarke was particularly
attached to British botany, and especially to local botany. He
recorded two new British denizens, viz., Lathyrus tuberosus Linn.,
and Erucastrum Pollichii Schimp. et Spenn., both of which he first
noticed in Essex. He also wrote on the injury caused to barley by
Rhinanthiis Crista-Galli, Linn. His great contributions to science
were, however, not his published writings, but his continuous efforts
to promote the study of the Natural Sciences, especially Botany. He
gave considerable time to the instruction of young men, and to
encouraging them as collectors. His acquaintance with the local
flora and his assistance are fully acknowledged in the preface to the
'Flora of Essex,' by his friend George S. Gibson. Joshua Clarke
cultivated many of the rarer and more beautiful indigenous plants
of Britain; and could often show a visitor the "Spider" or the
" Fly" in his garden, though these Orchises rarely lasted a second
season in captivity. He was ten years Mayor of Saffron Walden,
and was always ready to encourage visits to his town by scientific
societies and public lecturers. He was elected a Fellow of the
Linnean Society in 1853.