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Cabinet, Thurston being unanimously appointed Chief Secretary 

 and Minister for Foreign Eolations. Upon the subsequent 

 British annexation and the formation of a Grovernment under 

 Mr. Layard the Administrator, Thurston was made Auditor- 

 General, and he continued to occupy prominent positions of 

 advancing importance in connection with the administration 

 of the government of the islands, culminating in his appoint- 

 ment in 1887 as Governor of Piji and High Commissioner for the 

 Western Pacific, which office he held till death. The latter part 

 of his career was interrupted by his being summoned to England 

 in 1885, in connection with an enquiry into the claims of German 

 subjects to land in the South Seas, he being appointed British 

 Commissioner on the Anglo-German Commission for the dis- 

 cussion of the interests of the German and British subjects, and 

 the more precise definition of territorial interests in those regions. 

 His fatal illness was associated with the after effects of a success- 

 ful rout of rebellious natives in 1894. Visiting England the 

 following year for consultation with medical specialists, he 

 returned for Fiji via Sydney ; and he died on his way thence to 

 Mel bourne, whither he was being removed on the recommendation 

 of his medical advisers, greatly respected by all about him, and 

 looked up to and trusted by the aboriginals. He was buried in 

 a specially bricked grave, in pursuance of the wishes of the 

 Government of Fiji, who intend to remove his remains to that 

 colony. 



He was a Fellow of the Hoyal Geographical Society, and was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on April 19th, 1883. 



Henry Trimen, M.B., F.E.S. — Of all the Fellows whose loss 

 we have this year to deplore, probably none is more widely and 

 personally regretted than Henry Trimen. Born on 26th Oct., 

 1843, at 3 Park Place A^illas, Maida Hill, he, in common with 

 his elder brother Eoland, early showed a great fondness for 

 natural historj^ and even as a schoolboy he devoted his holidays 

 to collection. 



From King's College School he passed in 1860 to King's 

 College, as a medical student, graduating M.B. with honours at 

 London University in 1865. During an outbreak of cholera he 

 acted as a district medical officer in the Strand, and had many 

 tales to tell of his early experiences among the very poor. 



It was about this time, 1866, that he, with Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, 

 took up the idea of prepariug a Middlesex Flora, to which he in 

 the same year added a novelty, Wolffia arrhiza, which he found 

 at Staines, and not previously recorded as British. The writer's 

 own acquaintance with Mr. Trimen dates from 1868, w^hen the 

 * Flora ' was on the eve of appearing ; it actually came out in 

 1869, and was at once recognized as being enormously in ad- 

 vance of anything which had up to then been published. The 

 historical part was almost entirely due to Trimen, and those who 

 have afterwards traversed the same ground have found the maiu 



