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member, and in 1890 the gold medal of the Linnean Society. He 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, on whose council he fre- 

 quently served, in 1866 and of the llojal Society in 1878 ; in 1902 

 he was elected a Menib'^- of the Royal Irish Academy, and in 1919 

 the University of Leeds conferred on him the degree of Doctor of 

 ■ Science. He was also an honorary member of various other bodies, 

 including the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society of Man- 

 chester, the Edinburgh Botanical Society, the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club, the Horticultural Societies of Boston and Massachusetts, 

 the Belgian Societe de Botanique, and the Imperial Academy Naturjie 

 Curiosorum. 



Although Baker's physical activity was restricted with advancing 

 years, his intellectual interests remained unimpaired to the last, and 

 his death, when it came, was the natural sequence of old age. He 

 was buried on August 19th near his former colleague, Daniel Oliver, 

 in the Friends' Burial-ground at Isleworth, when the staffs of Kevv 

 and the Natural History Museum, with Mr, F. N. Williams, the 

 present writer, and personal fiiends attended to do honour to his 

 memory. 



Three porti-aits of Baker have been published in this Journal : the 

 first (1S98, 243) from a painting by Mr. Josei)h W. Forster in the 

 lloyal Academy Exhibition of that year, representing him at work 

 upon ferns in a pose which all who knew Baker will recognise as 

 characteristic ; he is shown similarly occupied in the portrait with 

 attached autograph reproduced (1907, 67) from the Naturalist of 

 the same year ; the frontispiece to our volume for 1901 — a very 

 pleasant presentment — is taken from The Garden for Nov. 9, 1900 ; 

 another portrait, excelLnit as a likeness but less pleasing in expression, 

 appeared in the same journal, Jan. 1, 1898, as frontispiece to the 

 pree.vling vjluuie. 



DIAGNOSES OF FUNGI FROM "SPOTTED" APPLES. 

 Br Aethur S. Horxe. 



(From the Department of Plant Phys'ology and Pathology, Imj)erial 

 College of Science and Technology.) 



During an investigation into the spotting of apples, which com- 

 menced at Wisley in 191'J, several fungi were isolated* from the 

 diseased tissue underlying the surface spots occurring on apples of 

 many different varieties cultivated in Britain. These fungi do not 

 usually form fertile reproductive bodies in situ; they sporulate, 

 however, when grown in potato mush agar. Besides LeptospJmria 

 vngahunda Sacc, Coryneum foUicolum Fuck., Fusariuin mali 

 Allerch., Alternaria grossulariece Jacz., and other readily identified 

 species, the fuMgi obtained included a number of forms which could 

 not be determined. The latter are now regarded as new species, 

 and technical descriptions are given below for the first time. 



* The writer is greatly indebted to his wife for carrying- on this work, thereby 

 saving the cultures, during his absence from Wisley on War Service. 



