44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



' llaiidbuoli oHlie Iriileu; ' (1S'J2) ; ami willi G. 11. Tate, ' A New 

 Floni of Xt)i'tliiiiiil)ei-liiii(l and Duihain' (NHwcastle-oii-Tvne, 

 1868). As to Culoiiiiil floras, lie continued to co-operate on them ; 

 to the 'J-'lora of Tropical Africa,' 'Flora t'apcnsit?,' and 'Flora of 

 IJritisli India' (LeijuMiinosa?, vol. ii. pp. 5(i-;i()()) he contributed 

 valuable portions. To our own Journal, besides the " Monop;raph 

 of J3ritiHh lioses " s|)oken of ai)ove, he sent revisions of Tiiliaceae, 

 Scillea?, and Chlorogalea', Tulipeae, Asparagaceaj, " Systeina 

 Iridearum " (in our lOth volume), llypoxidacea}, Colchicaceae, 

 Alcineae, and Yuccoidese, the tuber-bearing Solanuins, and many 

 papers of new species from Madagascar. In the ' Journal of 

 Botany' we may note "Dactyloid Saxifrages" (1870), a Mono- 

 graph of Xijihion (1871), Ca|)e Species of Anthericum (1872), 

 Aechmea ( 1 87!)), IsoHes (188U), Pitcairnia (1 88 1 ), Sdagmella (1 884), 

 and Tillandsia) (1887-88). Amongst his many contributions to 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' were these : — Yuccas (1870) ; all 

 kuown Lilies (1871-) ; Crocus (1873); Iris (1876); Afjave 

 (1877) ; Aquileyia (1878) ; Hardy Seuipervivums (1879) ; Crinum 

 (1881); Ci/damen (1883); Cultivated Asters (1884); New 

 (Tarden Plants, a running series from 1888 to 1892. 



Tilt? "North Yorkshire" was reprinted in the l^-ansacfions of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, re-issued in 1906. 



The last contribution in our Journal is " ARevised Classification 

 of Roses, 1905,'' printed in vol. xxxvii. pp. 70-79, in some degree 

 a forerunner of his descriptions in Miss AVilhnott's volumes 

 "The genus Rosa," 1910-14. 



Our Linuean Medal was presented to John Gilbert Baker in 

 1899; he was elected F.R.S. in 1878; the Victoria Medal of 

 Honour was awarded by the Eoyal Horticultural Society in 1897, 

 who appc^inted him an Honorary Life Fellow in 1888 ; lastly, in 

 1919 the University of Leeds conferred upon him the Honorary 

 Degree of D.Sc. 



His character is admirably summed up by Sir David Prain, 

 whose words we are permitted to add. 



" The sense of proportion which rendered Baker so dis- 

 tinguished as a systematic wrilei- made him equally effective as a 

 teacher. . . His style was lucid and concise, while he possessed 

 the happy gift of ability to emphasize the salient features of his 

 subject without neglecting its details. Baker's published works 

 ensure the perpetuation of his memory as the last of a singularly 

 gifted circle of systematic botanists. While any of them survive, 

 those who woi'ked with or were taught by Baker will elierish the 

 recollection of one of the kindest and best of men." [B. D. J.] 



Francis Maule CampisEll, who was born at Edmonton, Middle- 

 sex, in August 1843, and baptised on the 1st of September in that 

 year, died in his sleep at Nutdeld, Surrey, on 31st December, 

 1920. He was but little known to most of our Fellows since his 

 retirement to Wales and his marriage in 1902, but before that he 



