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went to Trinity College, Cambridge, of w liicli lie soon became a 

 distiiigiiislied !«cli()lar. From 187<S to 1882 he was assistant 

 curator of tlie University Herbarium, and was in this period 

 appointed a University Lecturer in Botany. He also became 

 Lecturer in Botany to both (tirton and Xewnliam Colleges, and 

 his literary tastes combined with his general activity were largely 

 responsible for the appearance of the ' Cambridge KevieM ,' of 

 which he was one of the original (ulitors. 



On his appointment at Jiirmingham, llillhouse went over to 

 Bonn to work with Piof. IStrasburger, a visit which culminated in 

 the translation of Strasburger's 'Practical Botany.' 



In Birmingham and the Midlands Hillhouse took an active 

 part in educational v\ork. He was for a time president of the 

 Birmingham Natural History Society, and of several of the local 

 Institutes, and for years he was a prominent member of the 

 Leicestershire Education Committee. He was honorary secretary, 

 and subsequently chairman, of the Birmingham Botanical and 

 Horticultural Society, and under his direction the Botanical 

 Gardens, Edgbaston, became one of the deligiits of the Birming- 

 ham district. Until his death, which will be sincerely regretted 

 by many students, friends, and colleagues, he was chairman of 

 the Council of the Midland lieafforestation Association. 



[(i. S. West.] 



Professor Prteh MacOwan, wlio died at Uitenhage, Cape 

 Colony, on the 1st December, 1909, was born at Hull, Torks., 

 14th November, 1830, and at the age of 10 became a tutor at 

 Bath, and after one or two intermediate positions, became a master 

 at Hudderstield College, acting also as teacher of Chemistry, in 

 1857, in which year he graduated in Arts in the University of 

 London. 



He had already taken up the study of Phanerogams and Mosses, 

 wheii his health gave way, and threatened with lung trouble, he 

 left lluddersfield in 18G1 to take charge of a projected college at 

 Grahamstown. Hi« health was wholly re-established on the 

 voyage out, and he never felt any serious failure until late in life. 

 At this school, Shaw College, he began his botanical work in South 

 Africa, and got into correspondence with prominent botanists at 

 the Cape and elsewhere. 



In 1869 he left Grahamstown to become science tutor at Gill 

 College, Somerset East. He gave his herbarium to the College, and 

 began a museum, and from this time must be dated his association 

 with Dr. Harry Bolns, who was then living at Graaff Reinet. 



He was appointed Director of tlie Capetown Botanical Gardens 

 in 1881, and soon afterwards became Professor of Botany at the 

 South African College. Here he seemed to have attained his true 

 position, but the real position of the Botanic Garden was really 

 most unsatisfactory, and the appliances at the College were quite 

 inadequate, and after a few years his classes were perforce 

 abandoned, though his methods were admirable and his descriptions 



