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leaved trees and cuuifei's <;ro\v to maturity in liis litVtiiiie, and he 

 useil witli priile lo sliow to liis friends specimens oF such a size 

 that it was almost impossihle to believe tliat they had been j)lanted 

 hy a living man. 



A man of cuUivated tastes, genial, liberal, and warm-hearted in 

 disposition, thorough in everything he undertook, he maintained 

 his faculties and interest in affairs to witliin a sliort time of his 

 death. Jle died on October 2Sth, 1921, in his ninety-lifth year, 

 and was buried in 'J'ortworth Churchyard in close proximity to 

 one of the most celebrated trees in England, an immense Spanish 

 Chestnut, supposed to date from the reign of King John. 



His only son having predeceased him witliout issue, he was 

 succeeded by his brother, who, after an unbrokeji absence in 

 Queensland of no less tluni ()6 years, has recently returned to 

 this country and taken up his residence at Tortwortli. 



[G. W.E LouER.J 



Joux FiRMiNGER DuxiiiE ^vas the son of the Hew A. II. Duthie, 

 rector of Sittingbourne and afterwards of Deal ; he was born ©n 

 rhe 12th May, 1845, and educated at iMarlborough College and at 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1867, with 

 a Third Class in the Katural Science Tiipos. After a short tutor- 

 ship in Somerset, he discovered Poh/gaJa aiistriaca in Kent", and 

 then travelled in Italy and certain of the islands in the Mediter- 

 ranean, collecting as he went, but his early gatherings u ere burned 

 in a \"epository where they were deposited. 



On the 15tli April, ISTo, he became a Fellow of this Society, 

 and in the same year was appointed Professor of Natural History 

 at the Ivoyal Agricultiu'al College, Cirencester; but the following 

 year he was made Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at 

 Saharanpur, vacant on the retirement of Dr. Jameson, and liere 

 he remained for twenty-seven years, retiring in 1903. 



He drew up the account of Myrtaceje ii> the second volume of the 

 'Flora of British India' (except five pages by Mr. C. B. Clarke on 

 the tribe of Barringtonia^), which came out in 1870; next, in 1881, 

 he brought out his ' List of Xorth-AVest Indian Plants,' and two 

 years afterwards ' A List of the Grasses of Xorth-AVestern Lidia, 

 indigenous and cultivated,' in the Eeport of the Department of 

 Agriculture of the N.AV. Provinces. Beports on the Government 

 Gardens of 'Saharunpur and Mussoorie' for 1885 and 1886 fol- 

 lowed. In 1885 was printed his account of Grasses growing on 

 the Hissar Bir land, Punjab; and then came the folio 'Illus- 

 trations of the indigenous Fodder Grasses of the Plains of North- 

 Western India,' Boorkee, 1886; the same year witnessed his 

 account of a botanical tour in Bajjnitona, witij yet another volume, 

 'The Fodder Glasses of Xorthern India,' in 1888; in 1896, 'A 

 Botanical Tour in Kashmir.' He was also associated with Mr. (now 

 Sir) Joseph Bampfylde Fuller, ' Field and Garden Crops of the 

 North- Western Provinces and Oude,' in three parts, lioorkee, 

 1882-93, in quarto. 



