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he received the appointment of Assistant-Secretary to the Marine 

 Department o£ the Board of Trade, and retired from the full Secre- 

 taryship in 1886. Por his departmental services he was made a 

 Baronet in 1883, and in 1893 elevated to the Peerage as Baron 

 Farrer of Abinger. On the London County Council he became 

 Deputy-Chairman and Alderman. He was twice married, first in 

 1854 to Frances, nee Erskine, who died in 1870, and second, in 

 1873, to Katherine Euphemia, daughter of H. Wedgewood, Esq., 

 having as issue three sons and one daughter by the first \'sife. 



He died, after a prolonged illness, at his residence, Abinger Hall, 

 near Dorking, on 11th October, 1899. His election to this Society 

 is dated 21st January, 1869. 



Apparently the only paper published by Lord Earrer on any of 

 the subjects which appeal to this Society was one signed by the 

 initials "T. H. E." in 'Nature,' 1872, pp. 478-480, 498-501, 

 " On the Eertilisation of a few common Papihonaceous Elowers," 

 which was drawn up in 1869, and submitted to Mr. Darwin, who 

 suggested its completion. " Other calls prevent, so I print it as 

 it stands," was the explanation given by the author. 



The Society has to record the death of one of its senior Eellows 

 in the decease of Thomas Bruges Elowee, who was elected 

 15th January, 1839, having thus spent 51 years in connection 

 with the Linnean Society. He was born in 1817, and practised 

 as a surgeon in various parts of the kingdom. In the same year 

 as his election, he published a paper on Swansea plants in the 

 * Magazine of Natural History,' and his interest in local botany 

 seems to have continued to the last. About 1841 he was settled 

 in London, and published a list of Bristol plants in the first 

 volume of the original series of the ' Phytologist.' Eour years later 

 he wrote an account of Reading plants for Robinson's ' Environs 

 of Reading,' 1845 ; he had previously produced a list of the more 

 interesting plants in Eletcher's ' Tour round Reading,' 1840. 

 The year 1847 witnessed the issue of his ' Flora Thanetensis,' 

 due to botanizing in the north-east of Kent the year before. At 

 this time, on his removal to Seend in Wiltshire, where he carried 

 on his profession, he conceived the plan of a Wiltshire 'Flora' ; in 

 1849 he sent a list of the Countv plants to H. C. Watson, and 

 in 1850 three copies of the ' London Catalogue,' ed. 2, with that 

 county divided into three divisions, and the plants in each noted. 

 The Flora came out in successive issues of the ' Wiltshire Archaeo- 

 logical Magazine' during the 17 years, 1857-74 ; it was little more 

 than a skeleton, and is superseded by a more detailed account by 

 Rev. T. A. Preston, given in the same journal for 1888. 



Since 1858 Flower resided in Bath, but usually came to London 

 in the month of May each year, visiting old friends and familiar 

 scenes. 



His death occurred at Bath on 7th October, 1899, in his 

 83rd year. 



