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the remainder scattered through several successive vohimes of the 

 Bulletin ; amongst these contributions, those on new species of 

 Carex of Eastern Asia are the most important. Shorter papers are 

 also to be found in Morot's ' Journal de Botanique ' and elsewhere. 

 His last paper, on the small collection of plants brought home by 

 Monsieur and AFadame de la Touch from i'okien, in China, with a 

 new genus of Gentianese in honour of the discoverers, Latouchea, 

 came out in the 46th volume of the Bulletin of the French 

 Botanical Society, after the author's death. 



The deceased botanist travelled but little, though he visited the 

 herbarium at Kew in 1894, stayina: at the house of Mr. W. B. 

 Hemsley. He greatly enjoyed this visit, and frequently spoke 

 of its events in his home circle, though his inability to converse 

 in English somewhat hampered bis excursions round Ivew. 



On the loth February last, he kept his room from an affection 

 which seemed merely a cold ; at six o'clock in the evening a 

 change for the worse set in, and by nine he was dead. 



Visitors to the herbarium of the Museum will sadly miss his 

 ready and ungrudging help amongst the collections there, of which 

 his knowledge was wide and special. His death is a real loss in 

 the botanic world, and to those, and they were many, who knew 

 him as a friend, his removal leaves a lamentable void. 



MM. Edounrd Bureau and Drake del Castillo spoke at the 

 graveside of their old associate, and reports of their speeches, 

 with a short note by the editor, will be found in Morot's ' Journal 

 de Botanique,' xiv. (1900), pp. 59-63. 



He:n'by Bellamy George was born in 1826, and had to make his 

 own way in life, which he accomplished by sterling industry and 

 business capacity. In middle life he actively interested himself 

 in various philanthropic offices, later becoming a director of the 

 Eeedham Asylum for Orphans. 



A chance attendance on a course of lectures on elementary 

 botany by a former president of this society, Mr. W. Carruthers, 

 induced him to become a student of that science, to which he was 

 also drawn by his artistic faculties, which had previously led him 

 to adopt the business of a designer. About that time he fre- 

 quently would rise at five on summer mornings and ramble as 

 far as Highgate or Hampstead in search of plants, bringing them 

 home to Barnsbury in time for breakfast, and yet reaching his 

 office by nine o'clock. 



The latter years of his life he lived at Shortlands, near Bromley, 

 in Kent. It was there he died on 26th December, 1899, regretted 

 by a large circle of friends for " his amiabihty of disposition, his 

 unaffected kindness, his large-hearted charity, and his unswerving 

 fidelity to conscience and duty " ; he was buried at Highgate 

 Cemetery. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on loth March, 

 1866. 



