52 rilOCKliUlNtiS OF Till': 



1111(1 Hongkong' liy [Messrs. S. 'I\ Diiiiii aiul W. .7. Tiitt-hcr, Adcli- 

 1 idiiiil Series X. of t lu; ' Hullcliii ol .Miscclliuicuus Inroritiiilioii,' 

 ol tliu J{())al Jiutaiiif (jarilciis, Kew. Tlii! lierliariiiiii of llu^ 

 clei)ai'tiiieiit has naturally the bulk of Mr. 'riiUher's cullected 

 specimt'iiB, but duplicates are ;it Kew and JNlaiiila. 



The f^eiius Tntcherui, JJuiiu, coiiinieinorates our late Fellow, 

 who discriiiiiuatcd the tree in the Jlongkoiif; gardens ; he hiinstdt"' 

 described Qiirrctis Klizd'jetJuf after his wile, lie was elected a 

 Fellow ol" this Society 15th Deceiuber, 11J04, and was looking 

 forward to a holiday at boiiH^, when he was attacked by pneu- 

 monia, and succumbed in March of the present year, leaving 

 behind a recoi'd of successful woik and diligent performance of 

 duty, [B. D. J.] 



Prof. Gkorgk Stepiiex West, M.A., D.Sc, A.E.C.S., died at his 

 home, 115 Pakeiiham Koad, Edgbaston, JJirmingliam, on the 7th 

 August, lUl'J, at the early age of 43, from iJiieumonia. 



lie was born at Bradford in 1S7(J, the second son of his father, 

 j\lr. AVilliam AVtst, a successful teacher and ardent naturalist. 

 Our late Fellow was educated at Bradford Technical College, 

 the Koyal College of Science at South Kensington, and St. 

 John's College, Cambridge ; he obtained 1st Class in both parts 

 of the Natural Science Tripos, in iS97 and 1898 res|)ectively, 

 became a Scholar and Hutchinson Research Student at St. John's, 

 and acted as demonstrator in botany in 1899; but here bis stay 

 was brief, for in the same year be received the appointment of 

 professor of natural liistory at the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester, until 1906. Jn that year he became lecturer in 

 Botany at the TTniversily of Birmingham, then, on the resignatiuu 

 of Prof. \V. llillhoiise, he succeedetl to the Chair of Botany from 

 19(19 until his death. 



Mis early publications were wrilt(>n in conjunction with bis 

 father (1848 1914), as noted in our ' Proceediiigs ' for 1913-14, 

 p[). G5-t)7. Brought up in an atmosphere of botanic activity, the 

 son of a prominent algologist, the younger West followed in 

 his father's steps, devoting his early attention to freshwater algoe, 

 a subject upon whicb he became the leading exponent in the 

 United Kingdom, aiul was ]>ursu(Hl to the close of his life. 

 Speaking generally, from 1893 or thereabout, his work was 

 associated with that of his father, until when, a few years before 

 the death of the elder AVest, whose attention had been increas- 

 ingly dr;iw n to the ecological study of the bryophytes and lichens, 

 the algological portion of their joint labours became more and 

 more the ]n'ovince of the youui^er West. 



]\1uch of their joint publications ;i])peared in serials and journals, 

 and we may specify the work on the algal llora of Voikshire (HXlO- 

 dl ), the Scottish lochs (HXV)), Irish lakes (19tl2 1tlO(;), Freshwater 

 Algie of Burma (19U7), Fiiglish lakes (l!.'09), the Driva A'alley in 

 Norvxav (191U), culminating in the volumes on the British Desini- 

 Uiacea), four volumes published by the Kay Society from 19U4 to 



