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After four years in Oxford he iiiigrated to Edinburgh, iu suc- 

 cession to Alexander Dickson, becoming also Queen's Botanist for 

 Scotland, and liegius Keeper of tlie Jioyal Botanic Garden in 

 Inverleith Row, wliich he retained for 34 years. 



During liis active professorial life he added to his previous 

 writings, but chiefly throwing his energies into the improvement 

 of the gardens at Inverleith liow, and in working up such genera 

 as Primula and Rliododendron, in which he became facile prmceps. 

 His earliest publication in our issues was an extract from a letter 

 on the Rodriguez flora (Journ, Bot. xv. (1875)), followed by a new 

 genus of Turneraceee, Mathurina, in the same volume (1876). 

 After describing some new plants from the same locality in the 

 subsequent volume, he issued an excellent monograph of tlie genus 

 Ilalophila in the Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, 

 and then in our 17th volume of the Journal (Bot.) brougiit out a 

 complete monograph of the Screw-pines, Fandanns. Smaller 

 papers followed from time to time, during the period when he 

 was in Socotra and working u|) its flora ; latterly his chief contri- 

 butions have been in the 'Notes' of the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden. 



Elected Fellow of our Society, 16th December, 1875, he served 

 on our Council during 1884-85 ; Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1884, and on its Council 181)2-94. He formed part of the Depart- 

 mental Committee of H.M. Treasury, which s;it from 1900 to 1901, 

 reporting H.C. 1901, no. 205. He did important work in editing 

 certain German works, translated by the Rev. H. E. F. Garnsey, 

 suci) as De Bary's 'Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria' (1887); 

 Sachs's ' History of Botany' (1890), and Goebel's 'Outlines of 

 Classification and Special Morphology of Plants' (1887); and his 

 labours in the establishment and early share in the editorship 

 of the ' Annals of Botany ' were notable. 



Last year, finding the climate of Edinburgh trying to his health, 

 he quitted Inverleitli House, in the Jjotanic Garden, and came 

 south to the milder climate of the Surrey hills, establisiung him- 

 self on Courts Hill, above the town of Hasleraere, and hoping to 

 enjoy the scientific society of London. But that project was not 

 to be realized ; hardly had he arrived, when he was confined to his 

 bed by medical orders, and although he rallied so much as to be 

 taken out in a bath-chair, there remained no hope of a real cure, 

 and he passed hence on the last day of November, 1922. [B. D. J.] 



Gaston Eugene INIaeie Bonniek, Professor at the Sorbonne, 

 Paris, was born in the year 1855, in Paris, where he passed his 

 early years and received his education. For 14 years he remained 

 in the Ecole Normale, rue d'Ulm, as pupil pre[)arer, assistant 

 lecturer, and finally lecturer. \\\ the laboratory attached to this 

 school, Bonnier carried out his first experiments. l\\ 1887, at the 

 age of 32, he was summoned to succeed Duchartre in the chair of 

 botany in the l'\aculty of Science, and there he displayed the same 



