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53 different occasions on the summit of Ben Lawers, and bad 

 spent more tlian 200 days upon tliat mountain. 



He was elected a Pellow of the Liniiean Societj on 20th De- 

 cember, 1S94, and from ]902 to 19u5 he was President of the 

 JS'atural History ISociety of Glasgow, in whose publications most 

 of his contributions to botanic science appeared. He wrote several 

 ' Contributions to the Topographical Botany of the West of Scot- 

 land ' between 1886 and 1895 ; 'An Ecolooical Problem* in 1904, 

 and his separate little work, a ' Glasgow Catalogue of JSTative and 

 Estabhshed Plants' in 1892, v\hich was revised in 1899 — in this 

 he catalogued 1959 species. 



His visits to London rarely missed a call upon the Linnean 

 Society, to consult books or specimens, even though the occasions 

 of liis journeys south upon insurance business demanded the 

 lion's share of his attention. He died on 3rd August, 1913, in 

 a nursing-home in Glasgow, after an operation. [B. D. J.] 



By the death of Dr. Albert Ivabl Ludwig Gotthile GtJNTHEii 

 on 1st Pebruary, the Society has lost an illustrious Pellow, who 

 had for many years been one of its trusted counsellors. He was 

 born on 3rd October, 1830, at Esslingeu, Wiirttemberg, where his 

 father held the post of an Estates Bursar ot the municipality. 

 He attended the gymnasium at Stuttgart and studied in the Uni- 

 versities of Tubingen, Berlin, and Bonn. Destined originally for 

 a career in the Lutheran Church, he soon devoted himself to 

 JVatural History and Medicine, and obtained the degree of Philo- 

 f^ophiae Doctor in Tiibingen in 1852 and of Mediciiise et Chirurgiae 

 Doctor in the same uni\ersity in 1802. In 1856 he paid a visit 

 to England for the purpose of studying the zoological collections 

 of the British IVluseum. This led in the following year to his 

 temporary and subsequently (1862) his permanent appomtment on 

 the staff of the Museum. In 1872 he succeeded G. B. Gray as 

 Assistant Keeper, and three years later (1875) Dr. J. E. Gray as 

 Keeper, of the Zoological Department, \^hich post he held until 

 retirement in 1895. It was during his Keepership and under his 

 direction that the va!^t collections of the Zoological Department 

 were successfullj^ mo\ed to their new home (1882-1883). 



An appreciation of Giinther's work as zoologist and of his keen 

 love of nature generally follows below. Here it may suffice to 

 slate that his tirst publications date back, as far as 1853. They 

 are a short article, " Uel er den Puppenzustand eines Distoma," a 

 note " Beitrage zur P'auna Wurttenjbergs,"and a memoir on "Die 

 P'is( he des Neckars," all in the 9th volume of the ' Wiirttem- 

 berg'sche Jahreshefte.' He was a fertile writer, and the titles of 

 his papers in the Eoyal Society's 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers 

 up to 1883' — that is, where the Catalogue stops- — fill no fewer 

 than 14 columns. His last contribution to scieuce was "^Andrew 

 Garrett's Eische der Siidsee," in Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, Heft 17 

 (1910) pp. i-vi, 389-515. _ 



To appreciate his activity as administrator and organizer, we 



