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they can be collated with the more familiar varieties. Rouy identi- 

 fies* his var. angustiloha with Neuman'sf. recentiorum pro parte, but 

 this seems to be the only case in which the attempt has been made 

 recently. Neuman himself gives Wallroth's var. zalinum as a 

 synonym of his f. recentiorum, but his diagnosis of the form does not 

 correspond with the plant which most botanists understand as repre- 

 senting that variety. 



JAMES RAMSAY DRUMMOND. 



(1851-1921.) 



James Ramsay Drummond was horn in Scotland on 13 May, 

 1851. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, the University 

 of Glasgow, and New College, Oxford, becoming B. A. (Oxon.) in 

 L872. He was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in that year, 

 reaching India in 1874. He served in the Punjab as Assistant Com- 

 missioner, District Judge, and Commissioner till 1901, the last few- 

 months of his Indian Service being spent in officiating as Curator of 

 the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. He retired 

 in 1905, and on reaching England settled at Kew, with the object of 

 working out the extensive hotanical collections made by him in the 

 Western Punjab, the flora of which he knew intimately, as well as in 

 the neighbourhood of Dalhousie and Simla and in the Gangetia 

 plain. He had intended to prepare a Flora of the Punjab, a work 

 he was fully competent to undertake, but owing to failing health he 

 was compelled to abandon this undertaking. A few years ago he 

 moved from Kew to Acton, where he died on 11 March, 1921. 



A man of unusual versatility, Drummond had an unbounded 

 enthusiasm for botany both in the held and in the herbarium. To a 

 remarkable memory and wide knowledge were added in his case 

 decided linguistic gifts and powers of exposition, all of which he was 

 always ready to place at the disposal of fellow-workers. His pub- 

 lished contributions were not numerous, and date mostly from after 

 his retirement. One important contribution, largely the outcome of 

 his studies at Calcutta just before leaving India, deals with the 

 Agaves and Furcraas that have found their way into that country. 

 This was published in the Bulletin of the Royal Department of Land 

 Records and Agriculture in 1905, and was reprinted in the Agri- 

 cultural Ledger, 1906. In connection with these studies he prepared 

 an account of the " Literature of Furcrcece, with a Synopsis of the 

 Known Species " which appeared in the Report of the Missouri 

 Botanic Garden for 1907. To this Journal for 1911 Drummond 

 contributed his useful critical notes on the ' ; Grewias of Roxburgh." 



David Pbaix. 



THE BRITISH RUBUS-LIST. 



13 v the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdall, M.A. 



A small MS. note-book compiled by the late Rev. W. Movie 

 Rogers has latety come into my possession, through the kindness of 

 his son, the Yen. F. A. Rogers, Archdeacon of Pietersburg, S. Africa. 



