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from tlio liulo-^rnlavmi rcpioii : and williiii n few v.reks of liis 

 (loceasp lie liad workwl out llie whole of tlie jNIalayan material at 

 Ivf'W of iSehtf/tiullct. His name appears in llie Kew ]Ierbariuin 

 Visitors' Book for tlie last time on tlie 27th January, 1911 ; 

 on the 23i'd February be succumbed at bis residence, after a very 

 l)rief illness, to an attack of hcart-lrouble, leaving a widow, 

 daugbters and grandchildren. His last ])ublished contribution to 

 botanical litei-alure was a jiaper cntilled "Notes on Indian Ferns" 

 ill the Journal of the IJoiiibay Natural History Society, April ll?, 

 J1H)8. To the Journal of the Koyal Horticultural Society, of 

 which be was a Fellow, be contributed useful annotated lists 

 of CampmnJa (19U7), Gesneracere and Acanthacejc (190S). In 

 1898 Ik^ddome ])resented bis collection of Mosses to Kew: his 

 I'haiierogainic herbarium is well represented in the Eoyal Her- 

 barium, also in tlie Herbarium of the 33otanical Department, 

 JNIadras ; while many fine s])eciinens of trees and flowering plants 

 collected by himself in Southern India are preserved in the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington, to whicb a selected 

 set of bis Ferns was also distributed. The bulk of bis own set 

 of the Ferns has been presented by Mrs. Beddome to Kew. 



As a horticulturist in bis Surrey home, Beddome was for nearly 

 thirty years indefatigable and successful, repeatedly flowering rare 

 or little-known sjiecies, which were exhibited at the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society's shows, or figured in the ' Botanical JMagnzine'; 

 be was keenly interested in practical questions of hybridization 

 and selection, and the annual view of his Chrysanthemums, to 

 which friends were hospitably invited, was widely apjireciated. 



For those who enjoyed bis personal friendship, the blank caused 

 by his death cannot be filled; while his personality, keen and 

 active in spite of bis age, will be missed by all wlio knew him. 



He was elected Fellow of this Society on the 2nd March, 1882, 

 although a short note of bis, extending only to half a page, 

 communicated by Dr. Thomas Thomson, was read on 17tb Novem- 

 ber, 1864, and published in the Journal ; it was descriptive of 

 his PcecUoneiiron incUcnm, He preferred to delay bis connection 

 with this Society until he could make full use of it. 



[J. E. Dkummond.] 



James Bisset was born on the 4th June, 1843, and from bis 

 boyhood was keenly interested in natural science, particularly 

 botany. His business took him to Japan in the early sixties, at the 

 time when the great changes were taking place which have resulted 

 in the modern Ja]ian. He made extensi\e collections of Japanese 

 plants, and corresponded with Maximovitch, who named several 

 plants after him, e. g. Viola Jiisscii. After living twenty years 

 in Ja])an be came home in 1886, and for some years he lived at 

 Banchory in Aberdeenshire, then, in 1892, be moved to Oxford, 

 to gratify his ambition to graduate there, and, at the age of 47, 

 he matriculated with a view to graduating in honours in the 

 School of Natural Science. He had intended to take botanv as 



