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Smith — who had been a friend of his for the last thirty years. He at 

 one time devoted his attention largely to the study of diatoms, and was 

 continually devising new contrivances for use in connection with the 

 Microscope ; he had also done some good work in the way of photo- 

 micrography. In later years he had undertaken important investiga- 

 tions in the germination of wheat. He made a large number of observa- 

 tions and experiments in connection with this subject, and published a 

 book relating to it, of which it was to be regretted that there was no 

 copy in the Society's Library. Mr. Smith regularly attended the Meet- 

 ings of the Society, and was a very enthusiastic microscopist, who did 

 a great deal to extend the usefulness of the instrument. Mr. Smith 

 was probably best known to some as the inventor and patentee of Hovis 

 flour for bread and biscuits. 



The President said he regretted to have to announce that the Society 

 had also recently lost several other of its Fellows by death — Mr. Alex- 

 ander J. Carrie, Mr. J. B. Morgan, Mr. Charles Coppock, well known 

 to them from his former connection with the firm of Smith and Beck, 

 and Mr. Edward George, who was one of his earliest London friends. 

 Forty years ago Mr. George held a responsible position in a City bank, 

 in connection with which he continued to discharge his duties till his 

 sudden death last week. The President, early in his acquaintance with 

 Mr. George, suggested to him to purchase a Microscope. A new field 

 of interest was opened up to him. His morning and evening walks 

 supplied him with many objects of interest. He purchased books to 

 help him in understanding the specimens he found, and he in this way 

 acquired a valuable library of scientific works. After some years of 

 general work, he directed his attention specially to Algas, and in his 

 summer holidays he arduously gave himself to the collection of speci- 

 mens. He had a sharp eye and a remarkable appreciation of the specific 

 characters of the Algse. For two or three years he gave himself to the 

 collection and study of Mosses. Dr. Braithwaite acknowledges the help 

 he received from Mr. George's collections. But he returned again to 

 his work among the Algae, and gave the spare time of his later years to 

 the collection and study of these plants. In the October number of 

 the Journal of Botany, Mr. Batters, in his paper on New British Marine 

 Algas, describes from the collection made by Mr. George at the Scilly 

 Islands in 1899, a new genus, and names the species after Mr. George — 

 Rhodophysema Georgii. Besides this, he added in that year three species 

 new to the British flora, and one that had not been before found in 

 England. Mr. George was singularly retiring. Though a fairly regular 

 attender of the Society's meetings, it is doubtful if he was known to 

 more than one or two Fellows. Mr. Batters says of him in the article 

 to which reference has been made, " Mr. George's fine collection of 

 marine Algae, with its sets of magnificent specimens, the reward of 

 assiduous collecting continued for many successive years, is but little 

 known to botanists ; but it is in vain that I have repeatedly urged my 

 friend to publish his notes." 



Mr. F. W. Millett's paper, Part IX., of his Eeport on the Recent 

 Foraminifera of the Malay Archipelago, was taken as read. 



