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accepted arrangement of the Daffodils ; and by his first contri- 

 bution to the pages of our own Journal, the Monograph of the 

 British Eoses. This memoir was followed in later years by a 

 long series of similar systematic treatises on large and difficult 

 genera, his contributions to our Journal alone amounting to more 

 than a thousand pages. 



" In descriptive Floras his activity has not been less conspi- 

 cuous : we have to thank him for the three volumes on the Com- 

 positse in Martius's ' Flora Brasilieusis,' for several papers on 

 Malagasy Botany, the Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles, the 

 bulbous Flora of the Cape, and the Leguminosse of British 

 India. 



" In the Handbooks which lie has prepared in recent years, on 

 AmaryJUdece, Iridea, BromeliacecE, and the Fern Allies, we possess 

 invaluable summaries of the material published on these orders. 



" But, Mr. Baker, I need not go further in enumerating your 

 published works ; their value is appreciated not only by your 

 fellow-labourers at home, but the manner in which the Liunean 

 Society honours you today w'ill meet with the joyful approval of 

 the Botanists of all countries. And it is an additional pleasure 

 to the Society to know that the bestowal of this medal is not 

 likely to mark the end of your services to science ; and we all 

 hope that the honourable leisure you njw enjoy will still be 

 productive of w^ork for years to come." 



The obituary notices of deceased Fellows w^ere laid before the 

 Meeting by the Secretary, upon which the proceedings terminated. 



The Eight Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, P.C., eleventh 

 Baronet of his line, was born in 1809, and died on April 29th, 

 1899, at his seat at Killerton, near Exeter, in which locality his 

 family have made their home for some 300 years or more. Of 

 his political career, so memorably bound up with his close personal 

 friendship with the late Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, dating from 

 their companionship at Oxford, of his action on behalf of Free 

 Trade, the repeal of the Corn Laws, and his historical association 

 with the conception of the Home Eule Bill, this is not the place 

 to relate in detail. It is rather for his love of Agriculture and of 

 Natural History pursuits that we have to chronicle his memory, 

 for, as the champion of the Bath and West of England Agricul- 

 tural Society, he for several years devoted his best energies to 

 them, editing the Society's Journal with his own hands and 

 devoting himself heart and soul to its work and to cognate out- 

 door pursuits likely to benefit the moral, physical, and mental 

 status of the men of his county soil. Asa leader in their Yolun- 

 tter movement, as Master of the North Devon Staghounds, he 

 was at all tiiuts prominent among them, bringing to bear on their 



