40 PHOCEEUI>US Ol TUB 



Lieut. -Culojiol Simpson Powki.l, ]\1.D., E.A.M.C, died ut 

 liangoou on the -?;5rd ]March, lUll, soun alter lie had returned to 

 iluty as senior medical ollieer from lurloiigh, during wliieh he had 

 hren eleett^d a Fellow of the Liniiean Society, on 1st December, 

 I'JlU; his connection with us therefore lasting less than four 

 months. 



lie was the eldest son of Mr. Christopher BoUared Powell, of 

 8outhhorough, Kent; born in 1858, he \\as educated at Bury 

 at. Edmunds fSchool, and received his medical training at King's 

 College, London, becoming house jjhysician there. After taking 

 the medical diplomas of L.S.A. and M.U.C.S. iu 3 880 and 1882 

 respectively, he graduated at Durham University M.B. iu 1883 

 and M.D. in 18'JO. lie entered the Army Medical Service in 

 1885, and thenceforward ser\ed in India, China, and the Home 

 District. Gazetted Lieut.-Colonel in 19U5, he sailed again for 

 India in 1908, and was transferred to Burma, where his career 

 was cut ^hurt by the climate. [B. D. J.] 



puAXCis Lesitek Sopeu was, at the time of his deatli, 

 3Uth December, 1910, at Ilighgate, at the advanced age of 92, 

 the head of the firm of scientitic publishers Lovell Eeeve & Co. 

 He was a frequent attendant at the General Meetings of the 

 Society till a few months before his death. 



Like his predeceased partner, Mr. Lovell Eee\e, lie took a 

 keen interest in the subjects of the volumes published by their 

 house, but, unlike the senior partner, he did not join the ranks 

 of authors. 



He was elected Fellow of the Society, Ist December, 1870. 



[B. D. J.] 



Samuel Alexander Stewabt, A.L.S., was born in Philadelphia 

 on February 5, 182G. AVben eleven years old he came with his 

 father to live at Belfast, where he spent the remainder of his long 

 life, dying on June 15, 1910, in consequence of an accident in the 

 street. He was an entirely self-educated man. Poor health when 

 a child, and then straitened circumstances, shut him out from the 

 ordinary school career; but, fortunately, his love of nature took 

 him earlv to the Held where the work of his life was done. Up 

 to 1880,' when he was appointed Assistant-Curator of the Belfast 

 Museum, he worked at trunk-making, a trade in which he was 

 particularly skilful, giving all the spare hours to natural history, 

 especially botany and geology. He was on the committee of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club from its foundation in 18G3, and 

 liis first paper, " On the occurrence of some rare or little known 

 Plants in the Belfast district," was ]mblished the same year. A 

 considerable number of other papers and notes on the botany, 

 zoology, and geology, mainly of the North-East of Ireland, 

 followed, liis last contribution bearing the date 1909. But his 

 principal work was the 'Flora of the North-East of Ireland' 



