•J^ HARRY BOLUS, D.SC-, F.l-.S. 



his decreasing strength compelled him to resign. The South 

 African College is now charged with the maintenance and exten- 

 sion of his herbarium and botanical library, whose formation 

 engaged so large a share of his activity during many years, and 

 for the endowment of which a considerable part of his fortune 

 is set aside. 



He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1873 

 In 1874 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the division of 

 Graaff-Reinet. He filled the office of President of the South 

 African Philosophical Society in the session 1886-87, and was an 

 original Fellow and Member of Council of the Royal Society 

 of South Africa, which he served as Treasurer, 1908-09. In 

 1903 he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from the Cape 

 University. In 1909 he was awarded the South Africa Medal 

 and Grant for Scientific Research by the South African Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 



He left Cape Town for England on April 24th. He died 

 at Oxted, in Surrey, in the early morning of May 25th. He 

 is buried in the churchyard at Oxted. 



Harry Bolus was a man of strict integrity and unflinching 

 candour. He was disinclined to take an active part in public 

 aflfairs, but, having allowed himself to be charged with them, he 

 felt keenly the weight of responsibility. He was generous by 

 nature, but when acting in the public behalf he was firmly con- 

 vinced that his first duty was to be just. He possessed great 

 strength of character, and having made up his mind as to the 

 propriety of a course of action, he followed it without hesita- 

 tion or deviation. His afifeotions were strong, and at all 

 periods of his life he appears to have made great rather than 

 many friends. Two or three of his schoolfellows were 

 afifectionately remembered after more than half a century of 

 separation. In his later life comparatively few were admitted 

 to terms of close intimacy, but the bonds which united these 

 to himself were of the firmest, an?l were broken only by death. 

 He loved the society of those whose interests accorded with his 

 own. He was retiring by nature, and inclined to depreciate 

 his own achievements ; it may be that the men of his own time 

 have not yet fully recognised the value of the work he has done 

 in the country of his adoption. But his name will be held in 

 grateful remembrance by future generations of South African 

 students, and in the annals of South African Botany it will be 

 enrolled with those of Thunberg and Burchell and others of his 

 distinguished predecessors who prepared the ground for the 

 foundations which he laid. 



The writer is indebted to Mr. H. H. Bolus and to Miss 

 fl. M. L. Kensit for information which without their aid would 

 have been inaccessible. Miss Kensit has kindly prepared a list 

 of the principal botanical journeys made by Dr. Bolus, which is 

 printed as Appendix I. 



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