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articles in ' Gardening Illustrated ' some years ago.". . . " Our friend 

 was librarian for many years at St. Thomas's Hospital, and many 

 medical men will feel a real pang of sorrow when they know that 

 Mr. Saunders is dead. He was beloved by the students aud the 

 staff generally." The ' Gardeners' Chronicle' says: "He was soon 

 initiated in horticulture, but his bent lay more towards the study 

 of insects than of other living things, though he took a keen 

 interest in many branches of natural science. He became well 

 known as an expert in economic entomology, and his opinion was 

 on this subject widely sought and greatly valued, by none more 

 than by the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, whose meetings he regularly attended for many years. 

 His knowledge of entomology was always at the disposal of 

 enquirers, and his ready courtesy and clear expositions of life- 

 histories and so on made his communications of real value. He 

 was the author of several clearly written articles (not all of them 

 signed) in the horticultural Press. He was a skilled draughtsman, 

 and made a considerable number of coloured drawings of terato- 

 logical subjects of gi-eat interest and value to the botanist. When 

 in 1906, the Rev. W. Wilks was obliged, through pressure of 

 work, to give up the editorship of the R.H.S. Journal, Mr. Saunders 

 was appointed to succeed him. and he edited the Journal until 

 1908, when ill-health obliged him to resign." 



George Saunders had been a Fellow of the Entomological Society 

 from 1861 and had served on its Council. It was not till 1899 

 that he joined the Linnean Society, on the Council of which he 

 also served from 1902 to 1905, his appointment coinciding with 

 his brother's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



Alike in their devotion to natural history, the two brothers were 

 further alike in a certain seriousness of temper which evidently 

 invited appeals for their aid in church-work wherever they 

 happened to reside. This earnestness was happily combined with 

 a ready sense of things humorous and with what may best be 

 described as a singular capacity for friendship. 

 • For many years of happy married life they were alike in enjoy- 

 ment and gratitude. But George Saunders, who was united to 

 Miss Mary Horsley on July 9, 1868, had the sorrow of losing her, 

 after long and painful illness, in 1909, whereas Miss Mary Agues 

 Brown, to whom Edward Saunders was married Sept. 3, 1872, 

 survives him, together with nine of their twelve children, most of 

 them already engaged in a variety of promising pursuits. The 

 brothers died as they had lived, each fading from tlie scene with a 

 kind of modest tranquillity, Edward on tiie 6th of February last, 

 and George on the following 6th of April. Both had been for 

 some time conspicuously out of health, yet in each case there 

 seemed room for hope, though from the opposite considerations 

 that the one had been so seldom ill and the other so often. The 

 elder, after a delicate childhood, had proved immune to sickness, 

 till sympathy with his wife's affliction apparently broke down his 

 powers of resistance. The younger, on the other hand, had so 



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