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twelvemonth iu the study of Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics. 

 Returning to England, he became a general practitioner at Netting 

 Hill, and gradually attaining a position as a teacher, lie was 

 appointed Assistant Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital. 

 From this he passed to other hospital appointments, Avas a 

 Member of the Eoyal College of Physicians in 1853, and Fellow 

 in 1857. 



He left behind him the reputation of an able lecturer and 

 teacher. His " Lectures on Obstetric Operations " is in its fourth 

 edition, and still a text-book ; his smaller papers were entirely 

 concerned with professional topics. He amassed a considerable 

 fortune, of which he bequeathed .£2000 to London Hospitals. 



[B. D. J.] 



The Eev. Eichaed Barok was born 8th September, 184:7, and 

 entered the Lancashire Independent College for theological 

 training, but at the instigation of the veteran missionary William 

 Ellis, of South-Sea Island and Madagascar fame, he resolved to 

 devote his life to missionary work in the vast African island. 

 He left England to take up his duties in 1872, but though he 

 applied himself with remarkable success to mastering the Malagasy 

 language, with subsequent translations into that tongue, he found 

 time to study and collect plants and minerals. Of plants the 

 total number sent by him to Kew between 1880 and 1896 

 amounts to 11,834, many of which were described from time to 

 time by Mr. J. G. Baker, P.E.S. The following are that botanist's 

 chief papers upon Mr. Baron's materials : — 



(a) Contributions to the Flora of Central Madagascar. Journ. 



Bot. XX. (1882) 17-20, 45-51, 67-70, 109-114, 137- 



140, 169-173, 218-222, 243-245, 266-271. 

 (6) Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. — Part I. Poly- 



petalfe. Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xx. (1883) 87-158, 



pis. 22, 23. 



Part II. Monopetala?. lb. 159-236, pis. 24-27. 



Part III. Incompletae, Monocotyledons, and Filices. 



lb. 237-304. 



(c) Further Contributions to the Flora of Central Madagascar. 



lb. xxi. (1884) 317-353. 

 — — Second and Final Part. lb. (1SS5) 407-455. 



(d) Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. lb. 



XXV. (1889-90) 294-350, pis. 50-53. 



To these must be added Mr. Baron's own conclusions entitled 

 " The Flora of Madagascar," in the last cited volume of our 

 Journal (xxv. 246-224), with a sketch-map, which he read before the 

 Society on 1st November, 1888 ; he had then been a Fellow since 

 7th December, 1882. 



His mineralogical labours iu Madagascar were aided by the gift 

 of a special microscope for prepared rock-specimens, from the 

 Eoyal Society, and he also became a Fellow of the Greological 



