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followed part without a single liitcli, until, in 1908, with the 

 eighth part, the work came to a conclusion. For clearness, 

 precision and method, Cooke's ' Flora of the Presidency of 

 Bombay ' will always be a model. The plant-material on which it 

 was based consisted, apart from the older specimens in the Kew 

 collections, almost entirely of his own extensive herbarium, which 

 he brought with him to Europe, leaving a duplicate set at Poona , 

 and when subsequently the Poona Herbarium was burned, he, 

 very unselfishly, handed over his own set to the Poona College 

 to form the nucleus for a new Herbarium. After the completion 

 of his ' Flora ' he undertook to work out certain families for the 

 ' Flora Capensis.' He finished the genera Flextranthus, Coleus, 

 Pycnostachijs, ^olanthus, ll)j2^tis, and Mentha of Labiata^, and the 

 families of the Plantaginaceae, Nyctaginacete, and Illecebracese. 

 But whilst working at the Amarautacea3 he was seized with his 

 last and fatal illness. 



In Theodore Cooke botany lost a serious worker who came 

 forward late in life, but with unabated energy and ripe experience, 

 Avhilst his friends mourned in him the man, kind, genial and 

 broad-minded. He was made an LL.D. by his University and 

 created a CLE. in 1891. He was further a member of the 

 Institute of Civil Engineers, Ireland, of the Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain, and a Fellow of the Geological and — 

 since 1892 — of this Society, [O. Staff.] 



Alfred Eussell Fox, who died at Sheffield, 5th December, 1910, 

 after a long illness, was born iu that city in 1853, and on 

 leaving school was apprenticed to his father, a pharmaceutical 

 chemist, with whom he became a partner in 1876, and the 

 following year his name was enrolled in the Pharmaceutical 

 Society. 



He identified himself with municipal work, and particularly 

 with the work of local natural liistory societies. An ardent field- 

 botanist, he was much appreciated as a lecturer on his favourite 

 pursuit. He was one of tiie oldest men)bers of the Sheffield 

 Field Naturalists' Society and of the Shetfield Microscopical 

 Society. 



His connection with this Society dated from 15th June, 1899. 



[B. D. J.] 



Edward Gerrard, an Associate of the Society, elected iu 1862, 

 w as born iu Oxford, October 20, 1810. While he was still iu his 

 childhood, his parents came to London, and eettled at St. Pancras, 

 where he continued to reside during the many years of a longer 

 life than is granted to the majority of mankind. In 1836 he 

 entered the service of the Zoological Society on the same day as 

 the late Mr. G. II. "VVaterhouse, w hom he assisted in the curatorial 

 work of tlie Society's Museum. It is recorded that this Museum 

 at that time contained 0720 exhibited specimens of Yertebrata ; 

 and it was here that he laid the foundation of his knowledge of 



