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barium and Library. He had an intimate working acquaintance Avith 

 their contents and resources, and his knowledge was always at the 

 service of students and enquirers, many of whom will gratefully 

 recall his quiet, courteous and helpful demeanour. His devotion to 

 his work and the increased value of his services to the Department, 

 arising from the extensive knowledge he had acquired of systematic 

 botan}'', especially of the Seaweeds, led to his promotion in 1912 to 

 the post of Departmental Clerk, a post which was created specially 

 for him. Both Mr. Murray and I were greatly helped in the routine 

 necessarily associated with a government department by Carver's 

 methodical ways ; he was admirable at keeping records, and every- 

 thing was always ready to hand at the right time ; he would have 

 made an excellent confidential clerk. It was a serious loss when he 

 was transferred to the Ministry of Munitions — a loss of ripe experience 

 and knowledge acquii-ed through nearly forty years' steady conscien- 

 tious devotion to his work. — A. 13. R. 



Claude Fbebeeick Hugh Monro, who died at Weybridge on 

 August 14th, at the age of fifty-five, was born in London. After 

 being many years engaged in scholastic work, mainly at Margate, he 

 went out to Khodesia about 1900, where he worked for sixteen years 

 in the Mines Department of the Chartered Company. Compelled to 

 leave Africa by ill-health, he took up temporary work on the Indian 

 Trade Enquiry at the Imperial Institute, which also he was soon 

 compelled to relinquish. He gave collections of herbarium specimens 

 to the Khodesian Museum, Buluwayo, the South African Museum, 

 and the Botanical Department of the British Museum ; and he also 

 sent seeds of Bhodesian plants to Kew. Monro wrote two lengthy 

 papers in the Proceediiu/s of the Rhodesia Scientific Association, 

 one on the Grasses in Rhodesia (vol. vi. pp. 5-67 (1906), the other 

 on the Trees of South Rhodesia (vol. viii. jjart ii. p. 123 (1908)), in 

 both of which he devotes much care to the native names ; he was 

 engaged upon the revision of the latter paper at the time of his death. 

 His name appears frequently in Mr. Eyles's list of Southern Rhodesian 

 plants (Trans. R. S. South Africa, v. 273-564), and it has been 

 commemorated by Mr. Moore in Fochea Monroei and other species 

 described in this Journal. 



In The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist ^oy 3\x\j,M.\\ Harold 

 J. Wheldon begins a " Fungus Flora of Lancashire," in which will be 

 summed up all published matter on the subject with the observations 

 of recent workers. 



In the Report of the Ashmolean Natural History Society for 1917, 

 Mr. Druce gives an interesting account of John Randolph (1749- 

 1803) who successively occupied the sees of Oxford, Bangor, and 

 London, and was rector of Ewehne, Oxon, from 1796 to 1799. 

 During this period he annotated copiously an interleaved copy of 

 Sil^thorp's Flora Oxoniensis, entering the localities of the plants of 

 the neighbourhood, with critical notes which show that he possessed 

 a good knowledge of botany and of botanical literature. The volume 

 fortunately fell into Mr. Druce's hands ; Randolph's observations and 

 records form a fairl}^ complete Flora of Ewelme. 



The mendjers of the Briti-sh M^^eological Society held their 

 annual Fungus Foray at Selby, Yorkshire, from the 9th to 14th 



