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Upwards of bO plates in the ' iiotaiiioal Magazine" represent 

 plants introduced or cultivated by hiiii, the volume for 1877 was 

 dedicated to him hy Sir Joseph Hooker, the Editor, "as a tribute 

 to the zeal, intelligence, and success with which you have pursued 

 Jlorticidtural Botany'"; and it was chiefly to his initiative ihat 

 the JNlagazine owes the li'esh lease of lite on which it has recently 

 entered. 



His great work ' The Trees of Gre;it Britain and Ireland,' in 

 seven volumes, j)uhlished in collaboration with Prof. Augustine 

 Jleiiry, between J!)U() and 1913, was the result of much patient 

 research at home and of many journeys to various parts of the 

 world, undertaken with indefatigable zeal to study the trees in their 

 natural habitats. It is the most comprehejisive couipilation of its 

 kind, and his name will probably be best remembered as its joint 

 author. 



But Elwes also won distinction in the iieUls of ornithology and 

 entomology, becoming President of the Ornithologists' Union and 

 of the Entomological Society. On both subjects he published 

 many papers, and to the Natural Histor}^ Museum he presented a 

 line collection of Lepidoptera. At one time he made a study of 

 primitive breeds of sheep, and acx-omplished some valuable work 

 in tracing the origin of \arious breeds. On this subject he ])ub- 

 lislied papers in the ' Scottish JS^aturalist " and other journals. At 

 Colesborne he experimented with as many kinds as he could 

 obtain. To the ' Proceedings' of the Zoological Society, of which 

 he was a Fellow for 56 years, he contributed some iifteen papers 

 on zoological and allii^d subjects. 



He was elected a Eellow of the Linnean Society in 1874, and 

 of the Koyal Society in 1896. He w as a member of Mr. M;»caulay"s 

 Mission to Tibet ui 18S6, and after the Mission had been with- 

 drawn, he explored a new route to that country in company with 

 Mr. Prestage. These experiences drew him into association with 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, with whom he formed a warm friendshi|>, it 

 was therefore fitting that he should be chosen to deliver the first 

 Hooker Memorial Lecture at the Linnean Society in 1913. Much 

 of the country he traversed was described in Hooker"s ' Himalayan 

 Journals,' and had not been visited since Hooker's time, though 

 they have been since Ehves journeyed there. 



It will be seen that Elwes was a man of very wide interests; 

 the long list of papers under his name in the Royal Society Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature testifies to this ; he was gifted with 

 keen powers of observation, and great energy and tenacity of 

 purpose. He maintained his activities until within a very short 

 time of his death, which occurred at Colesborne on JVovember 26th, 

 1922, in the 77th year of his age. 



I'judowed with a sjdendid jjhysique and a commanding presence, 

 Elwes made his mark wherever he went. He was a good linguist, 

 always ready to conununicate information and to assist those 

 engaged in kindred pursuits. A man of strong feelings and 



