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be contributed some additions to the German translation by 

 U. Dammer which appeared in 1SS6 at Leipzig. ' Botany for 

 Beginners ' was a shght, unpretentious vohune in 1872 ; and in 

 the same year came out a notice of Maria, Lady Hooker, ^^■hich 

 was really drawn up by the then Dr. J. D. Hooker, though 

 attributed by many to the editor of the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' 

 in whose columns it appeared. 



During these years Dr. Masters had elaborated the natural 

 families of ^Lalvacece, Sterculiacese, and Tiliacete, which form 

 pp. 175-268 of the first volume of the ' Flora of Tropical Africa' 

 (1868), and the Samydaceae, Loaseae, Turneracea), and Passifloracese 

 of the second volume, pp. 492-520 (1871). Similarly he was 

 answerable for the enumeration of the Malvaceae, Sterculiaceae, 

 Tiliaceae, forming pp. 317-409, and the Olacineae, pp. 572-598, of 

 the first volume of the ' Flora of British India ' (1874-75), and 

 to the second volume he contributed the Passifloraceae, pp. 593- 

 603 (1879). From this time onward, his chief subjects of study, 

 in addition to the above-mentioned families, were Eestiaceae and 

 Conifene. He drew up an enumeration of Eestiaceae for De 

 CandoUe's ' Monographiae,' vol. i., and described the Brazilian 

 Passiftoraceae in 3Iartius's great ' Flora Brasiliensis.' Many of 

 his papers, particularly those on Coniferae, were contributed to 

 the pages of our publications. Thus we find that his earliest 

 paper issued in our Journal was that on a monstrosity of the 

 flowers of Saponaria officinalis in 1857, until the last from his 

 pen, " On the Distribution of Conifers in China and Neighbouring 

 Countries," which appeared posthumously in 1907. Forty con- 

 tributions from him appeared in our Journal or ' Transactions ' 

 between 1857 and 1907. A valuable bibliography, com])iled by 

 Mr. W. Betting Hemsley, will be found in the Kew ' Bulletin of 

 Miscellaneous Information,' 1907, pp. 327-334, but that does 

 not include the mass of his articles in his own ' Gardeners' 

 Chronicle.' 



He was also author of very many short articles in Lindley and 

 !^[oore's ' Treasury of Botany,' was largely responsible for the 

 Eeport on ^lixed Herbage of Permanent Meadows at Eotliamsted 

 ill the ' Philosophical Transactions' (1883), and edited new editions 

 of Henfrey's ' Elementary Course of Botany,' 2nd edition in 1870, 

 and the 3rd and 4th in 1878 and 1884 respectively. 



Dr. Masters was elected a Fellow of the Linuean Society, 6th 

 December, 1860, and of the Eoyal Society in 1870 ; he also 

 offic-iated as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society, in whose welfare he took the warmest 

 interest ; of Foreign recognitions, he was a Corresponding Member 

 of the institute of France, and an officer of the Belgian Order 

 of Leopold. 



He is commemorated by the leguminous genus 2Iastersia 

 .(J/, assamica), so named by Bentham in 1865. 



A few weeks before his death, he became indisposed, but no 



