40 PEOCEEDIIfGS OJF THE 



Mr. Mansel-Pleydell died at his seat, Whatcombe, Blaudford, 

 on May 2, 1902. A portrait of him in his Teomanry uniform is 

 prefixed to the first volume of the 'Proceedings' of the Dorset Field 

 Club in 1877, and a more recent one in Journ. Bot. xi. (1902) 

 p. 261. 



William Maetindale, the third son of Eichard Martindale, 

 farmer, of Stainton, near Carlisle, was born in 1840, educated at a 

 private school in Carlisle, and in 1856 Avas apprenticed to his 

 •uncle William Martindale, who had a large business as a druggist 

 in the market-place. Two years later his uncle died, and the term 

 of apprenticeship was finished with Andrew Thompson of English 

 Street, in the same city. On the expiry of his apprenticeship he 

 came to the South Coast for the benefit of his health, and then, when 

 22, he came to London, passing through the School of Pharmacy, 

 Bloomsbury Square, whence, after qualifying, he became assistant 

 to Messrs. Morson of Southampton Eow, in whose house he 

 remained some years. He then became dispenser and teacher of 

 pharmacy at University College Hospital, and demonstrator of 

 materia medica at University College. In 1873 he purchased a 

 business in New Cavendish Street, and thenceforward devoted 

 himself to strenuous work on behalf of his calling. In conjunc- 

 tion with Dr. Wynn Westcott, he produced a volume ' Extra 

 Pharmacopoeia,' which came out in 1883, and was so greatly 

 appreciated as to be now in its tenth edition, very much increased 

 in bulk and usefulness from the first issue. 



In his calling he was singularly energetic. For ten years he 

 was a member of the Pharmaceutical Society's Board of Examiners 

 for England and Wales. In 1889 he was on the Council of that 

 Society, and in 1898 President. Ill-health compelled him to seek 

 rest and change in the West Indies and South Africa, but abso- 

 lute rest seems to have been foreign to him. Amongst his latest 

 work was that on the Privy Couiicil's Poisons Committee. Over- 

 work and ceaseless worry brought on nervous depression, which led 

 to his ending his life by poison, 2nd February, 1902. 



He was twice President of the British Pharmaceutical Confer- 

 ence, a member of the Council of the Royal Botanic Society, and 

 as such interested himself in a scheme for the improvement of 

 botanic teaching in London. His election to our Society was so 

 recently as March 18, 1897; he was also a Fellow of the Chemical 

 Society, a Member of the Society of Arts, and of the Sussex 

 Archaeological Society, and a Baron of the Cinque Ports ; the last 

 by virture of having served as Mayor of Winchelsea. 



Dr. William Miller Oed, formerly a consulting physician of 

 St. Thomas's Hospital, died at his son's house at Salisbury, on 

 14th May, 1902. He was born in 1834 in London, and received 

 his medical training in St. Thomas's Hospital, which then stood at 

 the foot of London Bridge, on the Surrey side. He entered this 

 institution in 1852, and was most successful in gaining prizes and 



