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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Colloderma oculatum (Lippert) G. Lister.
Stemonitis fusca Roth.
S. confluens Cooke & Ellis.
Comatricha nigra (Pers.) Schroet., and var. alta Lister.
C. typhoides (Bull.) Rost.
C. pulchella (Ch. Bab.) Rost.
Lamproderma scintillans (Berk. Sc Br.) Morgan.
Liceopsis lobata (Lister) Torrend.
Trichia varia Pers., in great abundance.
T. scabra Rost.
T. Botrytis Pers.
Arcyria ferruginea Saut.
A. incarnata Pers. var. fulgens Lister.
A. denudata (L.) Wettstein.
A. nutans (Bull.) Grev.
MILLER CHRISTY, F.L.S. (1861—1928).
AN OBITUARY.
IT is with deep regret that we chronicle the death, on January
25th, 1928, following an operation, of one of the Club's,
original members, and past presidents, and one of its most
faithful adherents.
Robert Miller Christy came of old Quaker stock. He was
the eldest son of the late Robert Christy, of Chignal St, James,
near Chelmsford, where he was born in May, 1861. From
childhood he evinced remarkable interest in natural history ;
even during his school days at Bootham School, York, he
collected and examined conchological and ornithological speci-
mens, and wrote on these and cognate subjects, thus beginning
a long succession of articles, on the most diverse topics, which
continued throughout his life, and which culminated in the
account of "A Remarkable Gall on the Osier," which appears
in the present issue.
His wide range of interests and mental versatility were
extraordinary—and every subject had to be written upon at
length, and with much labour of research.
In early manhood he went to Manitoba and spent over a
year there camping and exploring with the celebrated naturalist,
Ernest Thompson Seton, with whom he thus began a. lifelong
friendship. He never married.