268 'J^HE BOTANICAL MAGAZTSE. LVoi. xxx. xo. x^fi. 



account of liim would be given in sonic French journal ; but 

 owing perhaps to the terrible wnr now raging over all 

 Europe, no such memoir, so far as I am aware, has yet 

 appeared, although a \'ear has elapsed since his death. It 

 would be a great pit}', if so famous a collector as Father 

 Faurie, who -devoted his whole life to the cause of botany, 

 shotild be allowed to depart without any appreciation of his 

 life and work appearing in any botanical journal. Aly readers 

 will generoush' take this as one reason, why this article 

 appears in these columns in my very poor English.] 



In July, 1915, on coming back from a botanical excursion 

 to Mt. Fuji, I found a telegram awaiting me announcing that 

 Pere Faurie was dangerously ill. This was soon followed b}' 

 another sa^nng that the reverend Father had ])assed away. 

 What was my sorrow and astonishment to receive the sad 

 news that so vigorous and indefatigable a man as Pere Faurie 

 had so untimely breathed his last. It seems he liad suffered but 

 a few davs. 



Father Faurie was born in 1847, in the department of la 

 Haute- Voire (Aveyron, France). In 1873, he came to Japan as 

 a Catholic missionary'. After staying in Tokyo for some A-ears, 

 he was given a charge in Hokkaido, tlien in Hirosaki, and later 

 in Aomori. Throughout his missionary life, he showed a strong 

 inclination towards botan}', and his devotion to it increased 

 during his last years. In making botanical collections, he 

 travelled throughout aW Japan, striking out into many unbeaten 

 paths. His journey's extended southwards to Formosa, through 

 Loo-choo, Kiushiu, Korea, Shikoku, Hondo and Hokkaido, and 

 northwards as far as the Kurile Islands and Sachalin. He also 

 coHected in Hawai. His assiduity in the work of collecting was 

 almost incredible. For this purpose, he travelled in all sea- 

 sons. He would climb any mountain however difficult, if he 

 thought it Ijotanically interesting. Quite alone, with his press- 

 plates and very simple provisions on his back, he would travel 

 and work for man}' days in the mountains, sleeping at night 

 perhaps in a tree or under a crag. There arc ])robabl\' very 

 few mountains in Japan which the Father did not climb. 



