. Journal of botany, British and foreign . a, his help l)eing duly acknowledged in the Flora of Wilis,published by Preston in 1888. His first communication to thesepages was in 1887—a brief note recoxding certain additions to thecounty flora as then known. In January 1892 Clarke married Miss Emily S. Ward, daughterof the Vicar of Great Bedwyn, and in October of the same year 168 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY he came to Oxfoicl, where he remained until his death. A devoutand convinced Anglican, he was for fifteen years sidesman at thechurch of SS. Philip and James, of which he was also for a shorttime
. Journal of botany, British and foreign . a, his help l)eing duly acknowledged in the Flora of Wilis,published by Preston in 1888. His first communication to thesepages was in 1887—a brief note recoxding certain additions to thecounty flora as then known. In January 1892 Clarke married Miss Emily S. Ward, daughterof the Vicar of Great Bedwyn, and in October of the same year 168 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY he came to Oxfoicl, where he remained until his death. A devoutand convinced Anglican, he was for fifteen years sidesman at thechurch of SS. Philip and James, of which he was also for a shorttime churchwarden. We had for some time hecome somewhatintimate as correspondents, and on his occasional visits to townhe used to call upon me at the Natural History Museum ; it wason one of these visits that I suggested to him the compilation ofa list of the records of the occurrence of the native plants of thiscountry, which I had long thought would be of interest, and whichhis knowledge of botanical literature, tlien already considerable,. rendered him qualified to undertake. This list was begun in theJournal for January 1892 and continued at somewhat irregularintervals until the end of 1906, when it was reissued as a volumeentitled First Becords of British Flowering Plants-. Clarke was,however, never quite satisfied with the form in which the listappeared in the Journal, where exigencies of space demandedmore strict limitations than he thought desirable; and in 1900he published a second edition, revised aiid corrected, whichgave him more satisfaction and is indeed an important contribu-tion to the history of British botany. In his introduction Clarkesets forth his views on nomenclature, which were sentimentalrather than logical; he had strong objections to certain conse-quences of the adoption of the Vienna Code, and these were oftenthe subject of amusing discussion between us. Although possessed of a good knowledge of British plants, itwas the bibliographical side of botany i
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