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334 FRESH-WATER AhGJE OF IIAMPSHIBE.
tlie painting clone during that period, we can realize to some
extent the intense application of the artist. But her rapidity of
execution was as marvellous as her fidelity to nature and her
staying power.
Soon after the completion of the new arrangements, Miss North
retired to Alderley, and rarely went to London. Her last visit to
the gallery was about the end of February, 1888. It was evident
then that her repeated references to approaching death were not
the outcome of a morbid imagination, induced by over-work. After
her return to Alderley, in 1888, she was very ill, but she partially
recovered ; and, in spite of occasional relapses, she enjoyed her
garden of flowers, and entertained a few visitors.
Miss North was not a botanist, though she painted so accurately
that many persons naturally supposed that she was. She remembered
the botanical names given her fairly well, and she knew well
the external morphology of the flowers she painted, but she never
attempted to master the technicalities of systematic botany. Yet
she was a great observer, otherwise her work could not have been
so accurate, and would not have formed so enduring a memorial of
her as it is now likely to do.
W. B. Hemsley.
FRESH-WATER ALG^ OF ENBRIDGE LAKE AND
VICINITY, HAMPSHIRE.
By John Roy, LL.D.
The material on which the following list is founded was
gathered in February, in the years 1888-89, in Hants, in the
neighbourhood of Newbury. The best gatherings were from
Enbridge Lake (= E. in the list); the others are from—Woolton
Pond (= W.); Ball Hill Pond (=B.); Red Pool, High Clere
(= R.) ; Millford Lake, High Clere (= M.) ; Malverley West Pond
(= P.) ; and Hampstead Park Pond (= H.).
My attention being mainly directed to Desmids, it is very likely
that several of the other Algfe were either not noted or overlooked ;
also at that season many of them, such as (J^^do/ionicc, Spirotjijrce,
&c., could not be named with certainty. Not pretending to know
Diatoms critically, none are entered in the list ; it may be mentioned,
however, that the favourite tesi-ohject, Aiiiphipleura jieUHcula
Kg. occurs in Malverley West Pond, and Navicula rhonibuides Ehr.
was seen in some of the gatherings.
My first intentiou was merely to publish the few species
additional to those contained in Mr. Bennett's list (Journ. Roy.
Micros. Soc, read 11th Dec, 1889), but on further consideration
I have resolved to issue it as it is, chiefly on account of the
collector, my valued friend the late R. F. 0. Farquharson, of
Haughton, Aberdeenshire, of whom a notice appeared in the
' Scottish Naturalist ' for July last. Besides taking his full share
in county business, and attending closely to the management of liis
estates, Mr. Farquharson found time for microscopic researches, of