94 PUOCBEDINGS OF THE 



KoBERT Morton Mijjdi.kton was born at JSowerby, near Tliirsk, 

 Yorkshire, on January 2'), 1840, and died on August 8, 1909, 

 at Wallington, Surrey- lli« career, beginning in the banking 

 business, was somewhat varied. He spent part oi' his life in the 

 Ynited States, whence he returned to Enghmd in 1890. After- 

 wards he went out on missionary work aniong the Araucarian 

 Indians of South Chili, coming back to this country for good in 

 1907. Since then he was employed temporarily at the Botanical 

 Department of the Natural History Museum, where he also placed 

 his collection of Chilian plants. He was a Hvely, genial man of 

 many interests ; but he published very little. He joined the 

 Society, whose meetings he attended very regularly, on the 

 4th March, 1880. ' [O. S.] 



The Most Honourable George Frederick Samuel Korinson, 

 1st Marquis of Eipon, K.Cx., P.C., was born in London 24th 

 October, 1827, son of the 1st Earl of Ripon and Sarah, only 

 daughter of the 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. He was elected a 

 Fellow on the 20th November, 1840, as Viscount Goderich, and, 

 continuing to pay his annual contribution during his life, \Aas the 

 oldest paying Fellow on the Eoll, and had therefore contributed 

 most largely to the pecuniary support of the Society. 



Of his varied and honourable oliicial career this is not the place 

 to discuss : the places he tilled in the State, including the Governor- 

 Generalsliip of India fi'om 1880 to 1884, claimed the whole of his 

 time and attention. In addition to the Garter Knighthood and 

 membership of the Privy Council, he was G.C.S.I., Hon. D.C.L. 

 (Oxford), Hon. Litt. D. (Victoria), aud F.E.S. He succeeded to 

 the title in 1859; and died at his beautiful seat, Studley Eoyal, 

 on the 9th July, 1909, the cause of death being heart-failure. 



[B. H. J.] 



Edwaru Saunders, F.E.S. , F.L.S., F.E.S., and George Sharp 

 Saunders, F.L.S., F.E.S., Hon.F.E.H.S., were both born at East 

 Hill, Wandsworth, sons of the well known William AVilson 

 Saunders, F.E.S., who was for eleven years Treasurer of the 

 Linnean Society. They were further fortunate in having for their 

 elder lialf-brotlierAVilliam Frederick Saunders (F.L.S. 1857-1901), 

 not only an accomplished botanist, but a noble-minded man, who 

 in all relations of life "loved himself last." In 1857 the family 

 residence was reinoved to Hillfield, Eeigate, and there the brothers, 

 educated at home, were constantly in familiar touch with their 

 father's immense entomological, horticultural, and other collections. 

 Their father's ready sympathy with every form of scien title pursuit 

 will be rememl)ered ]\y all who knew him ; and the frequent 

 presence at llilltield of men illustrious in various departments of 

 natural history was well calculated to impress tlie minds of intel- 

 lio-ent boys w^ith the importance of such knowledge. Between the 

 claims of heredity and environment, it must remain an open 

 question which was the more potent influence to produce in the 



