5^ ruoLlOEUINGS OF TIIK 



liealising the heavy aiid re.spansible duties attached to the post 

 of an adininistrative ollicer in cliarge oF a circle, the completion 

 ot this last work, consisting of two volumes of quarto size and 

 11415 pages with 54U illustrations, while actually in harness, 

 cannot but be characterised as a great achievement, reflecting the 

 greatest credit on the author. 



For the last tlnee years of his service Mr. Talbot was senior 

 Conservator of Forests in Bombay and atlviscr of (Tovernment on 

 all forest questions, and resided at Poona and Mahableshwar, both 

 hill stations and suuiuier resorts of (iovenimeut; but the social 

 attractions of these ])laces never appealed to liim. He was by 

 nature of a shy, I'etiring disposition, preferring the companionship 

 of his sister and a few friends to the usual gaieties and pleasures 

 that are associated with life at hill stations. 



Very great sympathy is felt for Miss Talbot, who has never 

 recovered from the shock of her brother's death, and who is still 

 in Switzerland lamenting his loss. [G. M. Ryan.] 



HEEMA.NN VocuTiNG w as born ill Blomberg, on the 8th Februarys 

 1847, the son of a market-gardener, and with his two brothers 

 and a sister he passed his early childhood among flowers. After 

 his schooldays he spent 16 years as under-gardener in the princely 

 garden of Detmold. During this period he began his botanic 

 training, and was helped by an apothecary, AVessel, in Detmold, 

 the author of a local llora of the Princedom of Lippe. From this 

 place he passed at the beginning of 1867 to an assistant's place in 

 the Berlin Botanic Garden, when Alexander Braun was Director, 

 and largi'Iy through his influence he studied the kindred sciences 

 and mathematics, Aschersou, Kny, and Pringsbeim being amongst 

 his teachers in botany. In 1870 he i-eturned to Blomberg, and in 

 1871 he issued his first paper, on Myriopluillum ; and in the same 

 year he spent three months at Kew^ for improvement. The next 

 year, 1872, Pringsbeim, who had a strong belief in his pupil's 

 powers, offered him the post of assistant in his private laboratory, 

 which offer was joyfully accepied. W^hilst here Ybchting pre- 

 pared for the examination for the doctorate, which he obtained 

 at Gottingen in 1873. The April of the following year he became 

 assistant to llanstein at Bonn. When Pfeft'er removed to Basel 

 in 1877, Vochting succeeded liim at Bonn, and the next year he 

 succeeded to Pie tier when the latter removed to Tiibiiigen. In 

 1887, PfelTer again migrated, this time to Leipzig, and for the 

 third time A^uchting again occupied his vacated [)Osition, and at 

 Tiibingen he passed the remainder of his days. Soon alter his 

 7Uth birthday in February, 1917, his health began to fail, and a 

 summer holiday in Switzerland failed to restore it; at a Basel 

 hospital he was informed that his state was hopeless from internal 

 cancer; lie journeyed home to Tiibingen, and after some months 

 of hospital treatment, died on the '2o{\\ November, 1917. 



His preliminary treatise has already been cited, but, in addition, 

 may be nami'd ' Bildnng der Knollen,' 1887; 'Transplantation 



