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president of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and 

 contributed various papers to its publications ; liis interesting paper 

 on the " History of Kew Gardens " and its connection with the 

 History of Botany, published in the South- Eastern Naturalist for 

 1915 was followed in 1917 by one of similar scope on "the Chelsea 

 Physic Grarden " ; his " Botanical Bibliography of the South-eastern 

 Counties " had been printed in the Transactions of the Union for 

 1899. Boulger became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1877 and 

 was a Honorary Fellow^ of the Koyal Horticultural Society. 



Although not a critical botanist nor specially interested in any 

 particular group, Boulger had an exceedingly good general knowledge 

 of British plants, wdiich gave to the popular works in which he was 

 concerned a value rarely attaching to such publications. In 1894-5 

 he collaborated with Mrs. J. A. Owen in The Country, Month hy 

 Month, for which he supplied the botanical information; and in 1914 

 contributed the letterpress which accompanied Mrs. Henry Perrin's 

 drawings in the handsome work on British Floivering Plants, pi'o- 

 duced at her expense. His Familiar Trees, first issued in two 

 volumes 1887-8 and again (in three) in 1906-7, attahied a large 

 circulation ; the edition of Johns's Floivers of the Field " entirely 

 rewritten and revised" by him, which appeared in 1899, has been 

 frequently reissued, and still remains the most useful book for be- 

 ginners. Observations on individual plants are scattered through our 

 pages ; the paper on entire-leaved forms of Lamium (1903, 150) and 

 notes on a new variety {schizopetala) of Erica cinerea (1912, 315) 

 and dialysis of the corolla in Convolvulus arvensis (1915, 359) are 

 the most interesting of these; a note on Lathrcea (1921, 301) was 

 his last contribution to our pages. The pa]ier on the preservation of 

 our wild plants (Journ. R. H. S. xxix. (1905) partly reproduced in 

 this Journal for 1906 (p. 414) shows a wide acquaintance wdth the 

 British fiora. His paper on " The Life-History of the Beech," 

 published in the Quarterly Journal of Forestry for 1907, is a 

 thorough piece of work for which a gold medal was awarded. In 

 1917 he published under the title Name this Flower a translation, 

 adapted to the British Flora, of M. Bonnier's Les Noms des Fleurs ; 

 at the time of his death he w^as engaged in similarly adapting the 

 same author's Flore du Nord de la France et de la Belyique. 



Boulo-or's connection with this Journal dates from 1877, in wdiich 

 year he published "a historical criticism" on the classification of 

 monocotyledons ; in the previous 3^ear he had contributed to the 

 British Association a paper on the evolution of sex in the vegetable 

 kino-dom. But although always interested in matters connected with 

 plant physiology and classification, his chief botanical work lay in 

 the direction indicated in his earl}^ days. At Cirencester in 1876 he 

 delivered what in a later lecture he claimed as " the first course of 

 lectures on forestry as a complete science ever delivered in this 

 country " : this later lecture — on " The Science and Teaching of 

 Forestry " — was given in the same place in 1882 ; even at that 

 period " there could hardly be said to be any interest " in the subject, 

 and the subsequent recognition of its importance is due in no small 



