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retirement from service in India he held successive posts under 

 the Finance Department, in the Southern Presidencies largely ; 

 and on return from leave hotne in 1874 was confirmed as Aceoun- 

 tant-General at Allahabad for the Government of what are now 

 known as the LTnited Provinces of Agra and Oudh. It was the 

 writer's good fortune to be his fellow-passenger in the autumn of 

 1874 on the voyage to Bombay, and be never missed a fair oppor- 

 tunity of interesting those whose work and interests were to be 

 bound up, for the best years of their lives at least, with India, in 

 the history and products, and especially the flora, of that country. 

 With the flora he was well acquainted, though the pressure of 

 official responsibilities seems to have precluded him from making 

 any public contribution to botanical literature ; while his knowledge 

 of the plants reared for use or ornament in gardens, differing as 

 these necessarily do widely in the different parts of India, was as 

 remarkable as it still, unfortunately, is exceptional. He was also 

 a keen student of astronomy, a pursuit to which it was perhaps 

 more easy to attract beginners than to field-botany, which, even 

 in the Nilgiris or Himalaya, demands considerable sacrifice. 

 "VVaterfield was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 

 6th April, 1876. From 1877-1880 he was Comptroller-General 

 in India, the highest post in the domain of finance outside the 

 Viceroy's Council, and on leaving India finally retired from the 

 public service in 1881. On returning to this country he settled 

 at Starcross in Devon, and became a Justice of the Peace for that 

 county, and engaged in local work and cultivating botanic rarities 

 in his garden. 



The writer has to thank Mr. Philip G. Waterfield for the infor- 

 mation given above of the early career of our late Fellow. 



[J. R. Deummond.] 



June 6th, 1907. 



Prof. W. A. Heedman, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting of the 24th May, 

 1907, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. F'rank Arthur Stockdale was proposed as a Fellow. 



Mr. Wilham Holmes Bnrrell, Mr. llltyd Buller Pole Evans, 

 Mr. Frederick Ambrose Gardiner, Mr. Frank Campbell McClellan, 

 Mr. E-obert Patterson, and Mr. Geoffrey Watkin Smith were 

 elected Fellows. 



The President announced that he had appointed as Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year : — Mr, Horace W. Monckton, 

 Prof. E. B. Poulton, Lieut.-Col. Prain, and Dr. A. B. Eendle. 



A telegram was despatched to Stockholm, from the meeting, to 

 congratulate His Majesty the King of Sweden on the occasion of 

 Their Majesties' golden wedding. 



