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he was the recipient of the Hod. D.C.L. of Oxford and t!ie 

 LL.D. of Durham and Montreal. 



Gralton was of a kindly and genial dispor-ition, liberal-minded, 

 and fully appreciative of good work in all departments of science. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Liunean Society, 2nd Pebruary, 

 1865. 



JoHAX jMaetix Ciiristia:s" LA^-aE was born in 1818, but par- 

 ticulars of his early life have not been procurable. He produced 

 his ' Haandbog i den dauske Flora ' in 1851, the Itli ed. of which 

 was publi>hed in 1886-88; it became the popular Danish Flora, and 

 displayed true critical insight ot the plants themselves. He drew 

 up a list of G-reenland plants for Emk's ' Grcinland,' 1857, which 

 was reprinted as a separate work in the same year. A visit to 

 Spain in 1851-52 resulted, first in his ' Pugillus plantaram im- 

 primis hispauicarum,' 4 fasciculi of which came out in 1860-65 ; 

 second, his ' Descriptio icouibus illustrata . . . praecipue e Flora 

 hispanica,' 3 fat^ciculi, 1864-66, in folio ; and lastly, in his 

 association with Moritz Willkomm, for their well-known and 

 A-aluable ' Prodromus Florae Hispanica?,' in 3 volumes, Stuttgart, 

 1861-80. 



For a long series of years he edited an annual seed-list of the 

 Copenhagen Grarden as Director, with occasional descriptions of 

 iiLW plants. He became editor of and completed the ' Icones 

 Danicfe Florae,' which had bten begun by Oeder in 1761, and 

 ended with the 51st fasciculus, followed by 3 supplements in 

 1883. This was succeeded by his ' iS^omenclator Florae Danicae,' 

 a triple index to the whole, with a reduction of the names to 

 modern nomenclature and critical notes, 1887, 4to. He con- 

 tributed to the ' Meddelelser om G-ronland' a 'Conspectus' 

 of the Flora, in two parts, issued in 1880-87. The last work 

 noted by us as from his pen was a revision of the genus Cratasqus, 

 issued as late as 1897. He died at Copenhagen, 3rd April, 

 1898, aged 80. His election as a Foreign Member of the Linnean 

 Society dates from 3rd May, 1883. 



CiiAELES i^AUDix was bom at Autun, 14th August, 1815, and 

 died on 19th March, 1899, at Antibes. His hrsc published 

 work was his thesis ' Etude sur la vegetation des Solanees,' 

 1842, a quarto of sixteen pages ; but the work by wliich he became 

 known more widely was iiis revision of tie Melastomaceae in 

 the Paris Museum, which came out in successive volumes of the 

 ' Annates des Sciences Naturelles,' tiom 1849-1853, and was 

 reprinted from that journal as a thick octavo. During the 

 tenure of his post ac the Museum he worked at the study 

 of hybridization, and gave much time to the order of Cucur- 

 bitaceaj ; it is stated that 1200 plants were experimented upon by 

 bim during these researches. A popular work by him in 2 vols. 

 appeared m 1867, entitled 'Les plautcs a feudlage coloriee ' ; and, 

 iu conjunction with his friend Joseph Decaisue, he elaborated 



