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Hospital, and took his M.E.C.S. and B.M.Oxon. in 1880 ; lie was 

 appointed House Physician at St. Bartholomew's, and Eesident 

 Clinical Assistant at the City of London Hospital for Diseases 

 of the Chest. In 188 L he left Englaud and settled in Emu Bay, 

 Tasmania, wliere lie bought land and devoted what time could 

 be spared from his medical practice to his farm. His health gave 

 way in 1896 ; and he turned homeward, but died at sea on the 

 23rd Oct. 1897. His opportunities for original work were practi- 

 cally none, but be retained his zest for botany and geology from 

 the' early days, when he gained prizes at Kugby in those two 

 sciences, to the last. He was elected a Fellow of the Society on 

 17tb March, 1881, before his departure for Tasmania. 



Edmtjkd JoHif Baillie was born in 1852, and on leaving 

 school entered the firm of E. & A. Dickson, of Eastgate, Cliester, 

 Seedsmen. Beginning as a junior in the correspondence depart- 

 ment, he eventually became its head, then cashier and confidential 

 adviser to the firm, a partner, and finally the managing partner. 

 On the amalgamation of the two firms of Dickson, Mr. Baillie 

 became deputy Chairman of Dicksons, Limited. 



He was a successful man of business, but cultivated other 

 sph.eres of thought and action. He was an enthusiastic disciple 

 and personal friend of John Euskin, and, at the time of his 

 death, the President of the Liverpool Huskin Society. For some 

 years he was honorary secretary and treasurer of the Grosvenor 

 Museum at Chester, and an active member of the Chester Society 

 of Natural Science, in whose ' Transactions ' was published his 

 work " The City Flora," an account of the plants round Chester. 

 These do not exhaust the number of the institutions in which he 

 was interested ; he also belonged to the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society, believed in vegetarianism, and had other tastes. He 

 was elected into our Society on 21st June, 1878, and died at 

 his house, "Woodbine, Upton, on 18th October, 1897. 



Ja^ies Batemak, one of the pioneers of Orchid culture as now 

 practised, and the knowledge of which united in one person the 

 botanist and cultivator, passed away at his house at Worthing, 

 27th November, 1897, at the ripe age of 87. 



Born in the year 1810, he gatiiered his first orchid. Orchis 

 masciila, Avhen a child of eight. At Oxford he seems to have 

 shown his passion for orchids, awakened, it is stated, by a 

 coloured drawing of Eenanthera coccinea, and whilst still ad- 

 miring the beauties of that plant, he, as a gentleman-commoner 

 of Magdalen College, incurred the rebuke of the Vice-President, 

 Dr. Daubeny, afterwards Professor of Botany. For having in- 

 fringed the regulations as to hours, Mr. Bateman was required 

 to write out half the book of Psalms. 



He took his degree of B.A., 17th May, 1834, but had been 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society the year before, 



