50 PUOCEEDIXGS Of THE 



Journal (Botanyi, many on medioinal plants to the ' Pharma- 

 ceutical Journal' and ' Clieiiiist and Druggist,' 'The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle,' and 'The Technologist,' 



Oil rcachinj^ the age oF 05 in 1902, he left Richmond and 

 settled at Lynipstone, -where he lived until his death as recorded 

 above. He was elected an Associate on the 2nd April, 18G8, and 

 was thei'efore the oldest Associate in the list by eleven years. 



[B. D. J.] 



For some time before his death, at his residonce on Putney Heath, 

 on the 7th INlay, l!)2l. Dr. Gkorge IJluxdell LoxciSTAFF, 

 M.A. (Oxon), had been in ill-health, so that the announcement of 

 his death was not unexpected. He was the son of a medical man 

 at Wandsworth, George Dixon Longstaff, M.H., and was born 

 on the 12tli February, 1849, educated at lliighy, and New College, 

 Oxford (Scholar, First Class in Natural Science), where an accident 

 early in his academical career destroyed the sight of one of 

 his eyes, afterwards at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. IMuch 

 of his time was subsequently devoted to municipal and philan- 

 thropic work; for four years, 3 889-1903, he was a member of 

 the London County Council, and was also a A^ice-President of the 

 Statistical and Entomological Societies. In 1912 he published 

 his ' Butterfly Hunting in Many Lands,' the fruit of his varied 

 travel; his recreations were chiefly entomology, botany, and 

 travelling. He became a Fellow of the liinnean Society on the 

 19th June, 1913, but had been previously a treqiient vieitor with 

 Mrs. Longstaff, wlio had been elected in 1908. Besides tl:e 

 Societies already mentioned, Dr. Longstaff was a Fellow of the 

 Geological and Chemical Societies. [B. D. J.] 



The recent death of Prof. Alfeed Gabriel XA'rnoiiST has been 

 felt, not only in the domain of paloDobotany, but in a w ide circle 

 of friends, many of them in this country. He was born in 1850, 

 but after he had readied man's estate, his life was practically 

 spent in the service of the State Museum in Stockholm. 



The question of assigning better accommodation for the 

 botanical portion of the collections belonginir to the Academy of 

 Science, including an intendant for the palfeobotanic subdivision, 

 was mooted in 1881 , and strongly supported by Earon Nordenskiold 

 in the Bigsdag, but without immediate success. The following 

 year the application was again put forward, and now cou]iled with 

 the request that "Doctor of Philosophy Alfred Galiriel Kathorst 

 may be appointed for life, or till he. be appointed to some other 

 state service " ; this was secured in 1884. The building assigned 

 to the new subdivision and its head was in Wallengatan, in a 

 two-storied building, well-remembered by all who have since then 

 visited Nathorst in his corner room, and where so much of his 

 scientific work was done, with the library close at hand. The 

 building itself was old, and at the oj)posite end to Nathorst's 

 room, cracks showed themselves, even before the contents could 

 be removed into the new building at Frascati, now termed 



