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BY the death of Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S., which, as announced in our issue of July 23, took place at his residence at Leytonstone, Essex, on Sunday, July 20, the science of cryptogamic botany has sustained a severe loss. The deceased gentleman, who was a J.P. for his native county, was the son of the late Mr. J. Jackson Lister, F.R.S., of Upton Essex, where he was born in the year 1830. He was a brother of Lord Lister, and in 1855 married Susanna, daughter of the late Mr. William Tindall, of East Dulwich. From an early period of his career Mr. Lister devoted himself to the study of the Mycetozoa, a group formerly classed with the funguses, but now, largely owing to his researches, allowed to rank as a group of equal value by itself, characterised specially by the peculiar mode of development of its members. In addition to numerous separate papers on the subject in the journals of various scientific societies, Mr. Lister wrote the valuable “Monograph of the Mycetozoa,” published in 1894 as one of the well-known British Museum catalogues. Since the date of its appearance this thick green volume, which is illustrated by a large number of plates and text-figures in black and white, remained the standard work on the subject. By the iapse of time it had, however, as a matter of course, become out of date, and, until incapacitated by failing health, Mr. Lister, aided by his daughter, was enpaged on preparing a new and enlarged edition.
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Arthur Lister, F.R.S . Nature 78, 325 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078325a0
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