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which he retained unimpaired ahnost to within the last year of 

 his Ufe, owing to his frugal and regular habits. The days on 

 which during those 55 years he was compelled by indisposition 

 to absent himself from duty were very lew; in fact, I cannot 

 remember one. Daily, in ail weathers, he walked from his home 

 in Camden Town to the Museum, and even after his retirement 

 he continued his daily exercise, enjoying excellent health. His 

 friends hoped that he would reach his lOoth year ; he died on 

 June lU, lyil.l, witliin four months of his lOist birthday. 



His son, Edward Gerrard, and one daughter survive him. The 

 foriuer followed in his fatjier's footsteps, being the well-known 

 Ageut of jNatural History, who has done great services to the 

 Museum by faithfully fultiiling nuuierous commissions with 

 which he has been entrusted, and from whose laboratory the 

 nuijority of the best-mouuted mammals in the Museum have been 



issued. [ALBEIiT GtJNTUEU,] 



John IIixcnLEY Haut, F.L.S., ^vas born in 1847 and educated in 

 England, but as early as lb7'2 he went to America, where in the 

 British Colonies he found a rich Held for his energy and his 

 practical abiUties. He spent the years 1872-75 as landscape- 

 gardener in jN'ova Scotia, and the next twelve years in Jamaica, 

 lirst in charge of the gardens and grounds of King's House, then 

 as Superintendent of the Cinchona plantations (1881-86), and 

 tiually as Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. In 1887 

 lie was appointed Superintendent of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens 

 in Trinidad, which post he held until 1908, when he retired from 

 Government service. He was regarded as one of the best and 

 most trustworthy authorities in agriculture and horticulture in the 

 West Indies, and had an extensive knowledge of the Horas of 

 Jamaica and Trinidad. His publications are few, but the Her- 

 barium list of the botanical department of Trinidad (1908) is very 

 useful. He also eilited Jenman's volume of 'The Perns and 

 Pern Allies of the British West Indies and Guiana ' (1909). He 

 was elected a Pellow of this Society in 1887. [O. Stape.] 



FREDERICK IIovENDEN' was a member of a firm of perfumers, and 

 succeeded in securing the means of early retirement irom 

 business cares. Born in London in 1838, he soon took part^ in 

 local work, and in 1874 became the principal mover in founding 

 the South London Natural History Society (of which he became 

 tlie first secretary) in conjunction with Henry Deane, Prof. Charles 

 Stewart, Dr. Braitliwaite, and others. On quitting business he 

 moved from Brixton to Dulwich, and, later still, he acquired a 

 country liouse near Swanage, attracted thither by the charm of 

 the geology of the district. 



He was elected Fellow, 5th June, 1873, and of the Geological 

 Society in 1876; he died at DuKvich on the 17th March, 1911, 

 being buried at Norwood. [B. D. J.] 



