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Pigeon's ' Handbook of Shrewsbury,' and he was connected with
the Caradoc Field Club, as botanic referee from 1S73 up to the
time of his death, when he was Vice-President.
He prepared and issued four fasciculi of ' Elvellacei bi'itannici,'
from 1874 to 1881. His contributions published in our
issues were :— " On a new species of Helvella (//. californica
Phillips)," Transactions, ser. 11. Bot. i. (1880) p. 423, pi. 48 ;
" A Kevision of the Genus Vihrissea" ih. ii. (1881) pp. 1-10,
pis. 1, 2 ; and "Some Observations on the 'Breaking' of the
Shropshire Meres," which came out in our Proceedings, 1881-82,
p. 2y. This last was amplified in an account issued in the
seventh volume of the ' Transactions ' of the JShropsliire Archeological
Society in 1884 ; and the subject was again taken up, read
before the Cai-adoc Field Club, and published in ' The Midland
Naturalist,' with two coloured plates, in 1893. His most extensive
work, and only volume, was ' A Manual of British Discomycetes
' in the International Science Sez'ies in 1887 ; other papers
were contributed to the local societies named, and with Dr. Plouright
he Avew up two papers on " New and JRare British Fungi."
which appeared in ' Grevillea ' in 1873-74. Always fond of
antiquarian research, latterly he gave nearly the whole of his
leisure to that study, but preserved his interest in botany to the
last. A short time before his death, his health failed somewhat
an attack of heart-trouble had appai'ently yielded to medical
treatment, but in the same night he passed quietly away during
sleep. He was buried amidst tokens of universal mourning on
the part of friends and fellow-citizens.
Quiet and unassuming, he did an immense amount of work,
not only in botany and archaeology, but in more purely local
requirements, as at the Museum, on the public documents, and
similar work, at the same time shunning publicity. His connection
with the Liuuean Society began 3rd June, 1875, and he
was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
The genus of Fungi Pliillipsia was established in our Journal
in 1881, by the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, in honour of our deceased
Fellow. [B. D. J.]
EiCHAED RiMMEE,who died at his residence, Dalawoodie, Dumfries,
on 19th August, 1906, was a keen all-round naturalist, but
he paid special attention to the Mollusca of Britain. He was
elected Fellow of our Society on 1st May, 1879, and in the
following year he brought out a small volume on his favourite
subject, entitled 'The Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British
Islands,' London, 1880, 8vo., of more than 200 pages and a
dozen plates, some of which were produced by pliotograj)hv, one
of the earliest applications of that art to malacologic illustration.
In 1887 he removed from Westboume Crescent, Hyde Park, to
8t. Albans, and after two years in that town he migrated to
Dumfries, where he ended his days, at the age of 79. [B. D. J.l
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