LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON". 47 



trouble made itself felt again, with a second operation, from 

 which he failed to recover, and died, as mentioned previously, five 

 days after becoming the President of tlie Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, and was buried in Doncaster Cemetery on the 8th of 

 January last. 



From early life he had been devoted to Lepidoptera, especially 

 the smaller species, and his first paper came out in ' The P]nto- 

 mologist' for 1876, when the author was 19; and diu'ing his 

 subsequent career his pen was busy in recording local obser- 

 vations. Interwoven with an intimate and sympathetic account 

 of Mr. Corbett's life, will be found nn ample statement of the 

 entomological laboui's of our late Fellow, by Mr. E. Gr, Barford, 

 in 'The Naturalist' for April last (pp. 145-149), with a portrait, 



[B. D. J.] 



James Eamsay Dbummond, B.A. (Oxon), was born at sea, off the 

 coast of Madras, on the 1^5th May, 1851. Having been educated 

 at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oxford, he joined tlie Indian Civil 

 Service in 1874. He served in the Punjab as Assistant Commis- 

 sioner, District Judge, and Deputy Commissioner until 1905, when 

 he retired. Before leaving India he acted for a short time for the 

 Cilrator of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, who was then absent 

 on leave. After his return to England lie lived first at Kew and 

 then at North Acton, where he died rather unexpectedly on 

 April 11th of the present year. He was cremated at Golders 

 Green, whence the ashes uere talven to Scotland, 



J. R. Druinmond was a nephew of the two great plant collectors, 

 James and Tiiomas Drummond, who contributed so largely to 

 our knowledge of the floras of West Australia and Nortli-we*t 

 America respectively, and shared with them in the common 

 heritage of love of plants and enthusiasm for botany. He him- 

 self collected largely in the Western Punjab, whose flora he knew 

 intimately, and only to a lesser extent in the neighbourhood of 

 Dalhousie and Simla, and in the Upper Gangetic plain, besides 

 employing native collectors in various parts of the AVestern 

 Himalaya. He intended to write a Flora of the Punjab, but, 

 partly owing to enfeebled health, he was unable to carry out the 

 plan on which he had set his heart. He had an unusually discri- 

 minative eye and a remarkable memory which aided him very 

 much in any of the many problems he set himself to work out. 

 Unfortunately only few of them matured into publication. But, 

 whether he made personal use of those gifts or not, he was always 

 ready to place them, as well as his linguistic knowledge and 

 general versatility, unstintedly at the disposal of others. He was 

 equally liberal in the distribution of his collections, which were 

 intended lor the great botanical herbaria at home and abroad, and 

 of which he actually distributed the first sets before the war. 



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