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It is, further, a j^reat pleasure for me to reeeive this medal, 

 awarded by the Council, from the hands of our President, 

 Dr. 8cott, my friend and fellow-worker iu palaeophytological 

 matters. 



I am now approaching the age of seventy, and my work is 

 essentially done ; but should God permit me some further time 

 of strength and health, this medal will be a further stimulus for 

 me to employ it entirely to the benefit of our beloved biological 

 science. 



The General Secretary having laid before the Meeting the 

 Obituary Notices of deceased Fellows, the proceedings terminated. 



OBITUAKY NOTICES. 



Thomas IIoDGSoy Archer-IIiicd was born in the year 1814, 

 and when at Eton from 1826 to 1832 was contemporary with 

 Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the future Bishop Selwyn, and other 

 notable men. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 graduated B.A. in 1837, and proceeded M.A. in 1840. He was 

 elected Fellow of our Society on the 4th March, 1834, and had 

 therefore, for many years, been Father of the Society. 



In 1856, on succeeding to an estate, he added the name 

 Archer-Hind to his original Thomas Hodgson, and from 1872 

 he lived at Coombe Fishacre House, Xewton Abbot, Devonshire. 



Possessing a keen deliglit in plants all his life, and delighting 

 in his charming garden, he seems never to have appeared in print 

 during his long career. Up to the last year our Librarian was 

 accustomed to receive an annual letter, written in a legible and 

 steady hand, requisitioning the Transactions to which he was 

 entitled. He died on the 3rd February, 1911. [B. D. J.] 



EiCHABD Hexrt Beddome was born in 1831, educated at 

 Charterhouse, and joined the Military service of the H.E.I.C. 

 on its Madras establishment in 1848. In 1856 the Madras 

 Government took steps to organize a Department of Forestry, 

 and iu the year following, Beddome, who was then Quartermaster 

 and Interpreter of his regiment, the 42nd Madras Native Infantry, 

 was selected, on account of his devotiou to Natural History iu 

 different branches, and proficiency in Botany, as chief Assistant 

 to the first Conservator, Dr. 11. Cleghorn. One of his first duties 

 in this post was an exploration of the Pulney Hills, even now 

 too little known scientifically, and the botanical results appeared 

 in the Madras Journal (u.s.) iii. (1858), pp. 163-202. The time 

 allotted to this survey was necessarily brief, but it added more 

 than one species to the local Flora and the published account 

 remains of much interest to the present day. In 1859 Beddome 

 contributed to the same Journal (iv. pp. 66-73) a valuable paper 

 on the South Indian and Ceylon species of the dilBcult genus 

 luqiatiens. 



