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same value open to all Grradaate Members of the TJuiversity. 

 This has been held by Mr. A. M. Smith, Mr. Thoday, Mr. S. 

 Mangham, and Mr. Price. In 1909 the same generous benefactor 

 gave to the University a capital sum to provide two Prizes, known 

 as the Frank Smart Prizes, to be awarded annually to members of 

 the University for proficiency respectively in botany and zoology 

 in Part I. or Part II. of the Natural History Tripos. The 

 Department of Botany has also directly benefited by Mr. Smart's 

 liberality ; a few yeai's ago, in response to a public appeal for 

 funds, he contributed a sum of £500 for the purchase of additional 

 Museum cases aud for other purposes. It is not too much to say 

 that Mr. Smart's benefactions have played a very important part 

 in the growth and efiiciency of the Cambridge Botany School 

 during the last 24 years. The Studentship is available at the 

 most critical period of a student's career, when it is of the 

 greatest importance that some means should be provided for 

 enabling men to show wdiat capacity they have for the prosecation 

 of research, and without such assistance as the Studentships 

 aiford, a student would in many cases be compelled to leave the 

 University without the invaluable training w'hich is placed within 

 his reach by Mr. Smart's benefaction." 



Two years ago Mr. Smart was knocked down in London by a 

 motor-car, and though it was hoped he had escaped serious injury, 

 his health failed since that time, and he passed away on the 

 7th April, 1913, in the 70th year of his age. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 20th December, 

 1883. [B. D. J.] 



Sir Charles Whitehead, who died on the 29th November last 

 at the age of 78, had been connected with our Society for the long 

 period of 41 years, having been elected a Fellow on February 2, 

 1871 ; his certificate being signed by Sir John Lubbock, H. T. 

 Stainton, aud Francis Pascoe. 



He was born of Kentish parents on the 7th May, 1834, and 

 was educated at Tonbridge School. The original intention of his 

 parents was that he should take Holy Orders, as two of his 

 forbears had been clergymen. Owing, how^ever, to his delicate 

 health, it was decided that he should take up farming as an 

 occupation, so he was sent to Mr. Squarey, a well-known land 

 agent then farming 1600 acres near Salisbur}^ In some privately 

 printed ' Retrospections ' issued towards the end of his life, he 

 said that " the four years in Wilts passed all too quickly, resulting 

 in a confirmed taste for literature aud a practical knowledge of 

 agriculture, an ardent love of hunting, and a useful seat in the 

 saddle." 



For a long series of years he was engaged in agriculture in Mid- 

 Kent ; farming 250 acres of hop, fruit and corn land, besides 240 

 acres of grazing land in Eomney Marsh. This farm he relin- 

 quished in 1879, finding "depression lowering over agriculture 

 ;and having much countv business and work connected with the 



