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882 OBITUARY.
of Harvey's ' Phycologia '—and one that will whet the appetite for the
forthcoming new 'Phycologia,' by Messrs. Batters and Holmeg.
From what has been said it will be seen that we have in this
Marine Flora a record of true and faithful research, which establishes
Mr. Batters's position in the front rank of British phycologists past
and present. G. M.
*' Articles in Journals " for November is unavoidably postponed.
OBITUARY.
Isaiah Waterloo Nicholson Keys, the author of ' Flora of
Devon and Cornwall,' died at his residence in Whimple Street,
Plymouth, on Nov. 4th. Mr. Keys was the son of Elias Keys, a
printer and bookseller of Devonport, where he was born, March
12th, 1818. He resided during the greater part of his life in
Plymouth, where he carried on for a number of years a printing
and bookselling business. More recently he gave up the bookselling
department, but continued the printing, in conjunction with
one of his sons, until the time of his death. Mr. Keys was a man
of great industry and considerable meiital vigour, and had a taste
for literature as well as for science ; in the earlier days of the
movement for providing cheap literary evening entertainments for
the people he often appeared as a reader of extracts from the
works of Dickens and other standard writers, and in this character
was in much request, as he possessed considerable histrionic
power. He was an old member of the Plymouth Institution and
Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, in the ' Transactions'
of which body his 'Flora of Devon and Cornwall ' appeared between
the years 1866-71 ; it being issued in five portions, each of which
was reprinted at the period of issue for private circulation. Mr.
Keys also contributed to the pages of the old series of the
' Phytologist ' an article entitled " Plants found in Devonshire and
Cornwall in addition to those contained in Jones' ' Flora Devoniensis'
and in the 'Phytologist'" (Phytol. iii. 1022-24, 1850).
For many years previous to his death he suffered greatly at
times from severe attacks of asthma. He was buried at the
Plymouth Cemetery, on Nov. 8th.— T. R. A. B.
James Shirley Hibberd, a well-known and prolific horticultural
writer, died at his residence at Kew, on the morning of Sunday,
Nov. 16th. Mr. Hibberd was born at Stepney in 1825, and for
forty years his name has been familiar to the public in connection
with garden literature, flower-shows, and the like, a large number
of books and more than one newspaper owing their existence to his
energy. In 1870 he issued a little book on British plants, entitled
' Field Flowers : a handy book for the rambling botanist,' which
in no way differs from other works of the kind, save, perhaps, in
the badness of its illustrations ; and he also supplied the text for
Cassell's ' Familiar Garden Flowers.' Mr. Hibberd was buried at
Abney Park Cemetery on Nov. 22nd. A portrait and memoir will
be found in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle ' of that date.