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der Allg. Forst- uud Jagd-Zeitung, April-Heft, 1902) : and to 

 Dr. Nisbet, \vho also furnished some memoranda of the work done 

 by our late Foreign Member. 



George S-VMUEfi Jexmax was born in 1857, in the South of 

 England, but was taken as a child \\ith his parents to the South of 

 Ireland, where his boyhood was passed. He started in life as a young 

 gardener, and obtained employment at the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, on 20th September, 1871. On 6th September, 1873, he left 

 that establishment to take charge of the Cinchona plantations in 

 Jamaica, where he remained until he was appointed Government 

 Botanist and Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens of Britisli 

 Guiana, on August 21, 1879, at a salary of .£400 per annum. 

 He reorganized the Gardens, bringing into high cultivation what 

 was previously waste land, and making them one of the finest and 

 most valuable botanic gardens in that part of the world. He spent 

 much time and energy in experiments on the growth of plants of 

 tropical climates ; but he is especially known for his work on 

 seedling sugar-canes, at first by himself, afterwards in conjunction 

 with the Government Chemist, Mr. J. B. Harrison. He devoted 

 mucli time to other departments of natural history, and in various 

 publications, in Guiana and elsewhere, he employed his pen to 

 good purpose. 



About the end of 1901, Mr. Jenman's health began to fail ; in 

 January of this year he was confined to his room, with a complica- 

 tion of heart and lung troubles, which ended fatally on February 28, 

 1902. The Government of British Guiana, recognizing that his 

 impaired health was due to a protracted residence in tropical 

 climates, had arranged for a long period of leave, so that he might 

 spend the wdiole of the ensuing summer in England. It was his 

 intention to retire on the termination of this leave, but the state 

 of his health prevented him quitting Demerara as intended, and 

 he died as recorded. 



He left one daughter, but his wife had died some j^ears before. 

 His collection of West Indian and South American plants is 

 understood to be a good one, and will pi'obably be disposed of fo? 

 the benefit of his daughter. 



Hexei de L.vcaze-Duthiees, Member of the Institute of France, 

 Foreign Member of the Eoyal Society, died at Las Fons in Perigovd 

 on July 21, 1901, in his SOth year. He was for over 50 years an 

 ardent investigator of the Invertebrata. Commencing with the 

 Tracheata, he throughout the period named produced a rapidly 

 recurring series of memoirs, for the greater part his own, but at 

 times in co-operation with his students, who were numerous. He 

 was the founder of a famous School, in which many zoologists now 

 well known in France were trained. In 1872 he established, in 

 connection with this, the 'Archives de Zoologie Experimental 

 et Generale,' now in its third series ; and it is but necessary to scan 



