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ordinarily wide and deep, as all must have realised who heard Kim 

 speak at the meetings of the Linnean Societj'. 



It is gratityins; to be able to record that, in spite of Professor 

 Stewart's naturally retiring and self-effacing disposition, his work 

 \\as appreciated even during his lifetime, and not only by his large 

 circle of personal friends, but also by the official dispensers of 

 scientific honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society 

 in 1S9G, and received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from the 

 University of Aberdeen in 1S99. It was with the Liuneau Societv, 

 however, that he more particularly identified himself. He was 

 elected to the Fellowship as far back as 1SG6, served on the 

 Council from 1875 to ]877, and again from 1S90 to 1895, was 

 President from 1890 to 1894, and Vice-President from 1894-1805. 

 His Presidential Addresses, which will be found in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' of the Society for the years mentioned, dealt with 

 Secondary Sexual Characters, Commensalism and Symbiosis, the 

 Sound-producing Organs of Animals, and the Method of Loco- 

 motion iu certain Crabs and Gasteropodous Molluscs. [A. D.] 



Lieut.-General Sir Eichabd Strachey, G.C.S.I., LL.D., F.E.S., 

 who died on the 2nd February, 1908, from influenza, was born at 

 Sutton Court on the 24th July, 1817, and iu 1836, at the age of 

 19, entered the service of the Hon, East India Company, iu the 

 Bombay Engineers, was transferred to the Bengal Engineers in 

 1839, and during his residence in India filled many impoi-tant 

 posts. He served in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-46, and 

 during the Indian Mutiny he was Secretary to the Government of 

 the Central Provinces ; from 1875 to 1889 he was a member of 

 the Council for India. 



As regards his work which concerns this Society, it was practi- 

 cally limited to a collection made in conjunction with Mr. J. E. 

 "Winterbottom in Kumaon and Garhwal, ^hich was largely named 

 by Sir Joseph Hooker, who with Dr. Thomson speaks thus of it : — 



" The collection distributed by Captain Strachey and Mr, 

 Winterbottom consists chiefly of the plants of Kumaon and 

 Garhwal, and of those of the adjacent parts of Tibet, Captain 

 Eichard Strachey was appointed by the Indian Government to 

 make a scientific survey of the province of Kumaon, and was 

 occupied upon the task about two years, during which time, in 

 addition to the important investigations in physical science which 

 occupied his attention, he thoroughly explored the flora of the 

 province, carefully noting the range of each species. He was 

 joined by Mr. Winterbottom in 1848, and they travelled together 

 in Tibet, Their joint collections, amounting to 2000 species, were 

 distributed in 1852-53 to the Hookerian Herbarium, the British 

 Museum, the Linnean Society, and some foreign museums ; and 

 the scientific results are now in the course of publication. Tlie 

 beautiful preservation of the specimens, and the fullness and 

 accuracy with which they are ticketed, render this herbarium the 

 most valuable for its size that has ever been distributed from 



