The Captain Scott Memorial Medal 7 



can appreciate the gratitude felt by South African botanists 

 for what you have done to assist them. 



'* But these services, great as they have been, represent but 

 a part of the assistance it has been your privilege to render to 

 South African botanists. The Editor of the Flora Capensis 

 has entrusted to you since the v/ork waus resumed the revision of 

 the geographical data relative to every species included in that 

 work. All who have been privileged to help the Editor in 

 assisting our South African colleagues, appreciate the critical 

 acumen and balanced judgment with which you have fulfilled 

 your difficult task and feel that the decision of the South 

 African Biological Society to award to you the medal it is now 

 my pleasant duty to place in your hands is a singularly happy 

 one. 



In acknowledging the award Mr. Brown asked the Director 

 to have the kindness to convey on his behalf to the Council of 

 the Society his deep sense of the honour conferred upon him and 

 to express his grateful thanks for the medal, which he valued the 

 more because he felt it to be in reality an honour done to him less 

 as an individual than as a representative of the staff of the herbar- 

 ium at Kew. All that he had been able to do on behalf of South 

 African botany had been done as a member of that staff, and 

 his had been but the share allotted to him as one of that staff of 

 the work which Kew had at all times been glad and still would be 

 glad to do on behalf of South Africa. 



LIST OF VARIOUS WRITINGS OF N. E. BROWN:— 



Monographs of South African orders in Flora Capensis Vac- 

 ciniaceae, Ericaceae (excluding Erica), Asclepiadaceae, 

 Labiatae, tribe Ocimoideae in part. Euphorbia, Urticaceae, 

 Ulmaceas, Pontederiaceae, Xyridaae, Flagellarieae, Typ- 

 haceae, Aroideae, Lenmaceae, Eriocauleae, Restiaceae (a 

 few odd sp.). 



Monographs of Tropical African orders in Flora of Tropical 

 Africa. Asclepiadaceae, Gentianaceae (a small part). 

 Euphorbia, Orchideae (Disa), Pontederiaceae, Xyrideae, 

 Rapaleaceae, Flagellarieae, Typhaceae, Aroideae, Lem- 

 naceae, Eriocauleae, Restiaceae, Mayaceae. 



