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About eight short communications from Sir John Kirk ai'e in 

 our Journal, mostly contributed from Kew where his plants had 

 been examined, and one exliibition of rubber from Landolplda was 

 shown in our rooms on the loth June, 1882; but his chief 

 botanical work was done in conjunction with Kew : he seems to 

 have sent specimens from 1857 to 1896, ranging from Tropical 

 Africa, Seychelles, Comoro Islands, and Somaliland. A full account 

 is given in the ' Ivew Bulletin ' of this side of Kirk's activity 

 (1922, no. 2, pp. 49-63), He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society on the oth May, 1864, and at the time of his death was 

 only exceeded by four seniors; he was elected F.R.S. in 1887. 



Papers by Sir John Kirk, //* the Societifs publications. 



Journal, Botany: — 



1. Dimorpliism in tlie Howers of Monochoria vaginnlis, viii. (1864) 



147-148. 



2. On Musa . Living stoni ana, a new Banana from Tropical Africa, ix. 



(1865) 128. 



3. On a new Dve-wood of the genus Cndranea, from Tropical Africa, 



ih. (1866) "229-230. 



4. On the Palms of East Tropical Africa, ib. 230-23o. 



5. On the Copal of Zanzibar. Extract from a letter from John Kirk, 



M.D., F.L.S., dated Zanzibar, March ^Oth, 1868, xi. (1869) 1-4. 



6. On Copal. Extract from a letter to Dr. Hooker, dated Zanzibar, 



November 13th, 1869, ih. (1871) 479-481. 



7. Identification of the Modern Copal Tree, Tracln/lobium Horneman- 



nianum, with that which yielded the Copal or Aninii now found 

 in tlie earth on the East Coa?-t of Africa, often where no Copal- 

 yielding trees now exist, xv. (1876) 234-235. 



8. Note on specimens of Hibiscus allied to II. Iiosa-si)ii'nsis, L., col- 



lected in E. Tropical Africa, ib. (1876) 478-479. — Remarks by 

 Prof. Oliver, ib. 479-480. 



Proceedings, 1880-82 [loth June, 1882], p. :35:— 



9. Exhibition of specimens of the fruit, leaves, and I'ubber of Landolphia 



Jlorida, from the Island of Pemba, north of Zanzibar; also balls 

 and rubber beaters made and used by the natives of East Central 

 Africa. 



Transactions: — 



10. On a new genus of Liliacea^ from East Tropical Africa (WaJleria), 

 xxiv. (1864) 497-499, t. 52. 



[B. D. J.] 



GEOna Albert Klebs was born on the 23rd October, 1857, at 

 Neidenburg in East Prussia, the third child of his fatiier. He 

 went to school first at Wehlau, where his parents were then living, 

 leaving school there in August 1874, and proceeding to the 

 Albertina, in Konigsberg, to matriculate for the study of chemistry; 

 but shortly after he found himself drawn to Natural History, in 

 which he earnestly worked, and after several small contributions 

 he drew ut) an account of the Hesmids of East Prussia, which 



