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Duthie was appointed Professor of Natural History at the Royal 

 Agricultural College at Cirencester ; in 1876 he was Superintendant 

 of the Botanic Garden at Saharanpur in the North- Western Province 

 of India, vacant by tlie retirement of Dr. W. Jameson. In those 

 days the garden of Saharanpur was for the Upper Glangetic Plain 

 what that at Calcutta was for the Lower country and the region 

 bordering the Bay of Bengal; and Duthie at once set to work to carry 

 on the labour of distinguished predecessors such as Doctors Royle, 

 Falconer, King, and Jameson. This post he occupied for twenty- 

 seven years, retiring in 1903 ; during his service he travelled over 

 nearly the Avhole of the North- Western Province, the Punjab, and 

 Central Provinces, and especially explored the Himalayan regions of 

 Kuniaon (with Mr. J. R. lieid), Garhwal, Simla, and Kashmir, 

 making everywhere large and well-preserved collections for the 

 Herbarium at Saharanpur and for distribution to Kew, the British 

 Museum, Edinburgh, Calcutta, and elsewhere. 



Duthie paid special attention to the grasses of North- Western 

 India, both in their scientitic and economic aspect ; he published 

 lists of these at lioorkee in 1883 and 1886, and is commemorated by 

 Hackel in the genus Dufhiea, established on a Kashmir grass in 1895. 

 Much was done in the Saharanpur Garden in cultivating from seed 

 and improving the varieties of edible vegetables ; the results of these 

 experiments are largely embodied in Field and Garden Plants of the 

 North- Western Provinces, issued in conjunction with Mr. J. B. 

 (now Sir J. Bampfylde) Fuller in three parts in 1882-93. 



In addition to his work on Saharanpur, Duthie lectured every year 

 on the Systematic Botany of India at the Forest School at Dehra 

 Dun, and usually accompanied the students on their annual tour in 

 the hills of Jaunsar and Jehri-Garhwal, where the forests were under 

 management by the Government. 



On his retirement in 1903 Duthie returned to England, and in 

 Su]3tember of that year was appointed Assistant for India in the 

 Herbarium at Kew, a post which he was obliged to relinquish in 

 1907 owing to illness. During his time at Kew, his wide knowledge 

 of Indian plants was always at the disposal of those who were working 

 on them, and he described and published — in the Keiu Bulletin, the 

 Joa-rnal of Botany/, the Gardeners'' Chronicle, and elsewhere — many 

 important new species sent from India and neighbouring regions. 

 At the request of Sir Richard Strachey he revised the List of the 

 great collection of the plants of Kumaon and neighbouring Himalayan 

 regions known as the " Strachey and Winterbottom " collection, the 

 first edition of which was published in 1882, and the revision in 1906. 

 He also began and carried on from 1903 onwards the Flora of the 

 Tipper Gangetic Plain, which at the time of his death was nearly 

 completed. Before leaving England he had undertaken the Mi/rtacece 

 for the Flora of British India, in which work his monogra^Dh 

 appeared in 1878. 



Duthie married in 1879 Miss Coape-Smith, daughter of Col. 

 Coape-Smith, then in charge of the Army Remount Establishment 

 at Saharanpur, and we are indebted to Mrs. Duthie for much in- 

 formation about him. During the whole of his service in India, he 



