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Besides his official work at Saluirunpur, Duthie lectured on 

 systematic botany every year to the students at Dehra Dun, and 

 usually accompanied tliem through the forests for demonstration. 



On his quitting India in 1903, Duthie was appointed Assistant 

 for India in the Herbarium at Ivew, but illness in 1907 forced 

 him to resign. Whilst there he revised, at the request of Sir 

 Kichard Scrachey, the great collection known as the "Strachey and 

 AYinterbottom " plants, of which an unpublished but printed list 

 was extant. A ' Catalogue of Plants found in Kumaun and Garhwul 

 and the adjoining parts of Tibet,' forming ]^p. 6l3-lli2 of volume ii. 

 of a projected work, dating from about 1854, was revised by Duthie, 

 and came out as pp. 403-670 of E. T. Atkinson's 'Economic 

 Products of the N.W. Provinces,' Allahabad, 1876; another and 

 independent issue appeared " Kevised and supj)lemented by J. F. 

 Duthie,"' London, 1906. The latest work on which lie v\ as 

 engaged was his ' Elora of the Upper Gangetic Plain,' of which 

 two volumes and two parts of the thn-d to Juucaceae have appealed 

 at Calcutta, 1903-15. 



In 1879 he married Miss Coape-Smith, daughter of Colonel 

 Coape-Smith, an officer stationed at Saharunpur. In his literary 

 labours he was careful, and spent much time in determining knotty 

 points, but in consequence was not rapid in his work. He died 

 at Worthing on the 23rd February, 1922. [B. D. J.] 



A Fellow of long standing has passed away recently in the person 

 of Dr. Jonx Harley, who died at his house, ' Beedings,' Pul- 

 borough, Sussex. He was born in Shropshire in 1833, where he 

 studied the geology of the country round Luillow, specially paying 

 attention to the microscopical structure of the skeleton fragments 

 in the Ludlow bone-bed, publishing a paper on the subject in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society in 1861. 



During his medical studies about that period he turned his 

 attention to vegetable parasites, with a view to gaining an insight 

 into the cause of cancer and similar diseases in the human subject. 

 In March 1863 a paper of his on the Mistletoe was read be lore 

 the Liunean Society, followed by his election three months later. 

 The author described the parasitic growth and its effect upon its 

 host, and the action of the " sinkers " or suckers, which grow 

 downward into the wood of the host, closing with the results 

 observed on 31 woody trees infested uith mistletoe. 



He retired from his position as physician at King's College 

 Hospital, London, in 1902, and removed to the hous-^ he had built, 

 which he lived in during the remainder of his life. His geo- 

 logical collection was bequeathed to the Ludlow Museum. 



[B. D. J.] 



There are but few amongst the present generation who can re- 

 member seeing the late Sir Joiiis" Kirk, G.O.M.G., K.C.B., LL.D., 

 M.D., D.C.L., Sc.D., F.R.S., in our rooms, for since the Society 

 has occupied these apartments, he probably on only one occasion 



