sentences:  Working under Prof. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Prof. Sydney Howard Vines, he developed an interest in the family "Crassulaceae" and contributed an account of this group to Engler & Prantl's "Natürl.Pflanzenfamilien".While at Oxford, he translated, with Edward Bagnall Poulton and Arthur Shipley, August Weismann's "Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems".