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India ; and we beg here to record our sense of the great benefit 

 that has been rendered to botanical science by the disinterested 

 labours of these indefatigable and accomplished collectors." — 

 Flora Indica, i. 65-66. 



On Captain Strachey's return home on leave, the su'm of <£500 

 was placed at his disposal by the Hon. East India Company for 

 printing his report, and the second volume should have continued 

 with the account of his plants alluded to above, but as he himself 

 told the writer, he was unversed in printing matters, the money 

 rapidly vanished, and the botanic part was never published, though 

 a few copies were distributed privately. This catalogue, in a 

 tabular form, is paged 63-122, and was printed about 1854 ; it 

 was afterwards brought down to date by Mr. J. F. Duthie, F.L.S., 

 and by him inserted as pp. 403-670 of E. T. Atkinson's ' Gazetteer 

 of the N.W. Provinces and Oudh,' Allahabad, 1876. Early in 

 1898 Sir R. Strachey was anxious that the Linnean Society should 

 make a permanent publication of his work, and produced the 

 original maps and profiles of the country traversed, together with 

 elaborate analyses of the constituents of the flora, in comparison 

 Avith other parts of Asia and of Europe. The Council considered 

 that such a publication would require careful work to bring it in 

 accordance with present knowledge, and the tabular form would 

 largely add to the cost : these reasons induced Sir Richard not to 

 press it further in that form, but the idea was not given up, for 

 about 1903 the manuscript was handed to Mr. Duthie, who ulti- 

 mately passed it through the press, as : — ' Catalogue of the Plants 

 of Kumaonand of the adjacent portions of Garhwal and Tibet, based 

 on the collections made by Strachey and Winterbottoni during the 

 years 1846 to 1849, and on the catalogue originally prepared in 

 1852 bv Lt.-Gren. Sir Richard Strachey, revised and supplemented 

 by J. F. Duthie,' London: Lovell" Reeve & Co., 1906. 8vo, 

 pp. vii, 269, and one page of corrections. In the introduction the 

 editor enumerates the botanists who have assisted in completing 

 the work. 



For the two years 1888-90 Sir Richard was President of tlie 

 Royal Geographical Society ; he was rarely seen in our rooms, 

 but on the occasion of Mr. Bentham's retirement in 1874 from the 

 presidency, he took part in restoring harmony within the Society. 

 He died at Hampstead, as related above, and was cremated at 

 Golder's Green on the 15th February, 1908. His election as 

 Fellow of this Society dated from 20th January, 1859. 



It is stated that no fewer than 32 species and varieties of plants 

 discovered by him, bear his name ; botanically he is commemorated 

 by a leguminous plant, Straclieya tibetica, Benth. [B. D. J.] 



Although the death of William Thomas Locke Tkatebs 

 took place so far back as the 26th April, 1903, from the effects of 

 an accident, the fact was not generally known till recently. 



Born at Castleview, near Newcastle, County Limerick, on the 

 9th January, 1819, he received his education principally at 



