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OBITUARY. 



HENRY TRIMEN. 

 Born 1843. Died 1896. 



HENRY TRIMEN, like so many of the naturalists of the 

 generation which is rapidly passing away, was educated for the 

 medical profession and took his M.B. degree, but never practised. 

 In 1867 he became lecturer in botany at St. Mary's Hospital and in 

 i86g entered the department of botany of the British Museum, as 

 assistant to Mr. Carruthers. He remained at the Museum till 1879, 

 when he accepted the post of Director of the Botanical Gardens, 

 Ceylon. Dr. Trimen (as he was generally known) was an enthusiastic 

 botanist, and his work as a field-botanist at home, as a curator in the 

 great national herbarium, and in the wider scope as director of botanical 

 enterprise in Ceylon, was thorough. The " Medicinal Plants " (1880) 

 in four quarto volumes, in which he had the assistance of Professor 

 Bentley,is one of the most valuable works of its kind. " The Flora 

 of Middlesex," which he published conjointly with Mr. Thistleton 

 Dyer, is an example of what a county flora should be, and his 

 " Flora of Ceylon," which unfortunately remains unfinished, will take 

 a high place among those of our colonies. Nor must we omit to 

 mention his services to science as editor of the Journal of Botany 

 (from 1872 to 1879), in the next issue of which a portrait and memoir 

 are promised. 



HENRY NEWELL MARTIN. 

 Born 1849. Died October 30, 1896. 



DR. MARTIN has not long survived his resignation of the 

 Professorship of Biology in the Johns Hopkins University. He 

 was a graduate of Cambridge, England, and a Fellow of Christ's 

 College. His best known work was written in conjunction with 

 Professor Huxley, and is " Practical Instruction in Elementary 

 Biology " ; his physiological text-books, written while in America, are 

 still extensively used in the colleges and schools of the United States. 

 Dr. Martin's " Human Body" has gone through seven editions; and 

 a memorial volume of his papers was issued a few years ago. An 

 appreciative notice by Professor Michael Foster appeared in Nature 

 for November 19. 



