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Ill's chief subject, but found the needed amoant of microscopical 

 work too tryiiirr for his eyesight, and he then turned to geology, 

 in which subject he passed with honours iu 1896, at tlie age oi: 

 51 ; he proceeded M.A. iu 189'J. It was not till he was in the 

 middle of his University career that he retired from business. 



Upon taking his degree, he moved to Edinburgh and threw 

 himself into local scientific work ; lie was a Fellow of the Koyal 

 Society of Edinburgh, the lioval Physical Society, and a member 

 of the London and the Edinburgh Geological Societies. He 

 joined the Linnean Society, 21st April, 1881. 



His published papers were, " List of Desiuidiaceee found .... 

 in the neighbourhood of Lake Windermore during 1883," which 

 appeared in Journ. K. Micr, Soc. ser. 2, iv. (1884) 192-197, and 

 in conjunction with Dr. John Ko3',in the ' Scottish Naturalist ' in 

 1893-94, comprising G4 pages on Scottish Desmids. 



He died on 3rd April, 1911, at Edinburgh. [B. D. J.] 



Jonjf Bexxett CABEDTnEES, F.L.S., F.E S.E., died in Trinidad 

 at the early age of 41, on July 17, 1910. He was born at 

 Islington on January 19, 18G9, son of the then Keeper of 

 the Department of Botany of the British Museum, William 

 Carruthers. He was educated at Dulwich College, the Royal 

 School of Mines, and University College. Having decided for 

 a botanical career, he devoted himself more particularly to 

 the study of Algae, first under George Murray of the British 

 Museum, and afterwards under Prof. Schmidt in the University 

 of Greifswald. After his return to England he assisted his 

 father, then Considting Botanist to the Eoyal Agricultural Society, 

 and, at the same time, acted as lecturer on botany at Downton 

 College and at the Eoyal Veterinary College, until in 1897 he 

 went, for the Planters' Association, to Ceylon to investigate a 

 disease which threatened the Cocoa plantations. He delivered 

 himself so successfully of his task that in 19U0 he was apjioioted 

 Mycologist to the Government of Ceylon and Assistant- Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens at Peradenyia. Yive years later he went 

 to the Federated Malay States as Director of the new Department 

 of Agriculture. This post he held until 1909, when he accepted 

 an appointment as Government Botanist and Assistant-Director 

 of Agriculture in Trinidad. During an official visit to Tobago he 

 contracted fever which, after a prolonged illness, led to his 

 premature death. J, B. Carruthers was eminently a practical 

 botanist, his principal achievements being in the sphereof Tropical 

 Agriculture and plant pathology, and he was considered an 

 authority on rubber cultivation. His publications were not; 

 numerous and, apart from one on the cystocarps of some Algae, 

 dealt with economical matters. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1890 and of 

 the lloyal Society of Edinburgh in 1900. His rajiid promotion 

 speaks suthcientlv for the high ajtpreciation which his knowledge 



