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lines traced so accurately and thoroughly that comparatively 

 little that is new is to be gained. lu May 1869 Mr. Trimen was 

 appointed Assistant in the Botanical Department of the British 

 Museum, and at once began by overhauling the Briti^sh Herba- 

 rium there and incorporating with it his own collection. 



From 1867 he had been botanical lecturer to St. Mary's 

 Hospital, but in 1876 he resigned, Mr. W. B. Hemsley succeed- 

 ing him. 



In 1870 he became editor of the ' Journal of Botany,' in 

 succession to Dr. Seemann, and this post he held tiJl his departure 

 for Ceylon in 187U. 



He was on the Council of this Society when certain reforms 

 were advocated, and during the period when these alterations 

 were before the general body of Fellows, a period marked by the 

 retirement of Mr. Bentham as Pres^ident. 



With Prof. Beutley he began in 1875 his magnum opus, the 

 ' Medicinal Plants,' the last part being issued in 1880, after 

 Trimen had left England. In December 1879 he started for 

 Ceylon, as successor to Dr. Thwaites at Peradeniya. 



The majority of his friends had reason to lament his change of 

 position; for, though never wanting in his duties as a corre- 

 spondent, the withdrawal of a charming personality to a remote 

 colony was a tangible loss to those who had long associated with 

 him. 



On his arrival he set to work to rearrange the gardens, and 

 his colonial career was cheered by brother botanists who visited 

 his bungalow. He began to arrange for a new flora of the 

 island, and during a visit to these shores in 1886 he determined 

 Hermann's plants, now in the British Museum, which had served 

 Linnaeus for his ' Flora Zeylanica,' publishing his results in our 

 Journal, vol. xxiv. A Hand-list ot Cingalese plants had pre- 

 viously appeared in 1885, as a precursor of the full and definitive 

 Flora. In 1893 the first volume of his 'Handbook' came out, 

 with quarto plates, and his last visit to England in 1896 was to 

 look up some doubtful facts for the continuation. 



His friends were hardly prepared to find his health so shattered 

 as it proved to be : deafness, almost total, had troubled him for 

 some years ; now he had become partially paralyzed in the legs, 

 and it was sorrowfully evident that his days were numbered. 

 He regained Peradeniya, but soon the dread summons came, and 

 he passed away 15th October, 1896, without pain. He was 

 buried on Sunday, 18th October, ac Kaudy, not far from the 

 last resting-place of Thwaites. 



His election as Fellow took place 15th February, 1866. 



Feedebick Isaac Waeneb was born in 1842, and died at 

 Winchester on 8th Nov., 1896. He was an enterprising local 

 botanist, contributed lists to Townsend's ' Flora of Hampshire,' 

 printed a list of Winchester plants, and for four years was 

 general secretary of the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific 



