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son's first paper came out iu 1833, the career of father and son 

 thns much overlapping. His inaugural dissertation was on Pilu- 

 laria, Lundiv, 1833 ; his second independent work being a synopsis 

 of the genus Lupinus in 1835. The next year he brought out his 

 ' Novitife florse Sueciae ex Algarum familia/ a small dissertation of 

 only sixteen pages, but indicating the bent of his studies. A 

 recension of the genus Pteris followed in 1839 ; biit thenceforward, 

 with the exception of a small tract on the cell in 1852 and a 

 general system in 1858 and 1862, his life was given up to the 

 study of Algae, nearly forty papers standing under his name. His 

 greatest work is the ' Species, genera et ordines Algarum,' 1848-98. 

 This, like all his publications, in academical issues or as independent 

 works, bears the Lund imprint, thus confirming the statement 

 previously given, of the attachment to Lund which he showed 

 throughout his career. 'Til Algernes systematik ' is also a notable 

 work, appearing 1872-90. 



In 1879 he issued his ' Florideernes morphologic,' and ten years 

 subsequently ^ Species Sargassorum Australias,' from which country 

 he received abundant material. When nearly eighty he began his 

 ' Aualeota Algologica ' in 1892, of which the last part came out so 

 recently as 1899. 



Professor Agardh was constantly referred to as the chief authority 

 on marine Algae ; many of his determinations are to be found 

 in the principal herbaria in Europe. His own herbarium was 

 bestowed on his University, with the free i;se of it for himself 

 during his life, but afterwards no specimen was to be lent. 



He was elected Foreign Member 2nd May, 1867. On 24th May, 

 1897, our Linnean Medal was awarded him, the medal being 

 received on his behalf by Count Lewenhaupt, the Minister for 

 Sweden and Norway. A critical estimate of Agardh's work will be 

 found in the President's speech when making the award, which is 

 printed in our ' Proceedings,' 1896-97, page 55. 



In Dr. John Anderson, whose sudden death on 15th August, 1900, 

 at the ago of 67, deprived zoological science of an earnest worker — 

 keen, enthusiastic, and ever ready to devote his great mental i^owers 

 and personal wealth to the interests of scientific advancement — the 

 Linnean Society has lost a true and tried friend, a man who again 

 and again served it well upon its Councils, and who, but for feeble 

 health and the necessity for travel, would have graced its Presi- 

 dential chair. He was born in Edinburgh in 1833. His brother. 

 Dr. T. Anderson, entering the Medical Service of the East India 

 Company, became in due course a famous botanist and the Superin- 

 tendent of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens ; and John, having qualified 

 in 1861 as a doctor of medicine in the Edinburgh University, after 

 a couple of years spent as Professor of Natural Science at the Free 

 Church College of that city, went also to Calcutta, arriving there in 

 1864. From 1865 to 1886 he was the head of the Indian Museum 

 there located ; and in the collection, study, and arrangement of the 

 Burmese and Indian Vertebrata more particularly he did magnifi- 

 cent work. Of the papers which he during this period produced, 



