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with 9 plates and 2 maps, also presented by llie Grovernment of 

 India. His success in collecting in these regions was much helped 

 by his medical and surgical skill employed on behalf of the natives, 

 with whom he readily in.fjratiated himself. 



On his quitting the service, he settled at first at Dalkeith, then 

 at Edinburgh, in 1S92 unsuccessfully contesting a Scotch county 

 constituency as a Liberal Unionist. About this time he came 

 south, and took Leyden House at Mortlake, intending to work 

 up his Yoluminous notes by the aid of the library and herbarium 

 at Kew. But this plan was never carried out, ill-health prevented 

 it, the death of his wife saddened him, and after a long period of 

 decreasing strength, he died at Kew, on 30th September, 1898, 

 from cardiac weakness and other complications. 



He was elected a Fellow of our Society on 3rd December, 

 1863 ; and was also a Pellow of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh 

 (1882) and of the Eoyal Society of London (1883). 



George Ja:vjes Allma>', for seven years President of the Lin- 

 nean Society, died at Ardmore, Parkstone, Dorset, on Xov. 24', 

 1898, at the advanced age of 86, full of honour, a conspicuous 

 member of a great company of naturalists who^e work will ever 

 remain memorable in the Annals of British Biology. 



Allman was born at Cork in 1812, and educated at Belfast for 

 the Bar. Soon, however, his natural tendency towards scientific 

 work became predominant, and he in due course graduated at 

 Dublin in Arts and Medicine. He became in turn a Member 

 and a Pellow of the Eoyal College of Surgeons Ireland, and an 

 M.D. of Dublin and Oxford. In the year of his graduation he 

 was appointed Professor of Botany in the Dublin University, 

 and all thoughts of any but a scientific career were with this 

 dismissed. He held the chair for 10 years, working assiduously, 

 and then resigned it for the Eegius Professorship of Natural 

 History in the University of Edinburgh, with which was in- 

 cluded the Keepershij) of the Natural History Collections in the 

 Edinburgh Museum. In both Dublin and Edinburgh, Allmau 

 was a great favourite with the cultivated in society, and the 

 social side of his life owed much of its popularity to the charm 

 and energetic devotion of his talented w^ife. In 1870 he retired 

 into private life, living first in London and afterwards in Piirk- 

 stone, where he settled down in a charming property overlooking 

 Poole Harbour. The resources of this locality furnished him 

 the ideal of existence, and the beautifully undulating ground 

 which formed liis garden, as developed by him, rapidly assumed 

 a charming aspect and became the centre of accumulation of rare 

 and beautiful plants, individually the objects of his tender care. 

 Ihus surrounded, he continued with unabated zeal the zoological 

 w ork which made him famous, and so untiring were his energies 

 that at the advanced age of 86 we find him still observing and 

 publishing, while on the day before his death he insisted on 

 sitting at a little table, as was his wont, books and papers in 



