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succeeded to the post of Managing Director, his brother, John 

 Gould Yeitch the younger, being Secretary. Soon after this, 

 Messrs. Veitch decided to revive the old custom of their house, 

 and dispatched Mr. E. H. Wilson to Chiua, and later to the 

 extreme west of China and to Japan, resulting in a rich harvest 

 of novelties, both from the botanist's and the horticulturist's point 

 of view. His last work was the compilation of the sumptuous 

 ' Hortus Veitchii,' 1906, in which the history of the firm and 

 accounts of their numerous collectors are attractively set forth. 

 He died at the early age of 39, on the 13th November, 1907, and 

 was buried at Exeter, the ancestral home of his race. [B, D. J.] 



John Eeancis "Walker, who was elected Fellow on the 17th 

 April, 1873, and died at York 23rd May, 1907, was born in that 

 city 25th IS'ovember, 1839, his family having resided there for 

 many generations. After his early schooldays at St. Peter's School, 

 he studied at Cirencester College, and in 1862 entered Sidney 

 Sussex College, Cambridge, and was bracketed first in the Natural 

 Science Tripos in 1866. After taking his degree he studied 

 chemistry at Bonn, and after the Eranco-German war he returned 

 to this country, was called to the Bar, but never practised. In 

 1882 he married and retired to York, devoting himself to the 

 Brachiopoda, and especially the Mesozoic Brachiopoda, of which 

 group his knowledge was large, and to promoting the collections 

 of the York Museum, of which he became Honorary Curator. 

 Besides our own Society, he was Eellow of the Geological and 

 Chemical Societies. He was author of a score of papers on 

 geological topics. [B. D. J.] 



Chaeles Augustus Wright, the third son of John Wright, Esq., 

 was born at Cumberland Terrace, Eegent's Park, 1834. He was 

 privately educated, and at a comparatively early age accompanied 

 his parents to Algiers and afterwards to Malta, where he resided 

 many years. He acted, from about 1865 to 1874, as correspondent 

 for ' The Times ' in the Mediterranean, being also present with a 

 small squadron detailed to watch British interests during the 

 Intransigeante distui'bances of 1873 at Carthagena. In the same 

 year he participated in a cruise to the Levant and the Dai'danelles ; 

 and in 1874 he accompanied the Fleet under Admiral Sir J. E. 

 Drummond, in its expedition to the same waters. In his younger 

 days a keen sportsman, Mr. Wright devoted himself to the 

 Natural History and especially the Ornithology of Malta while 

 he lived there ; and his " List of Birds observed in the Islands 

 of Malta and Gozo," commenced in the ' Ibis ' for 1864, 

 with appendices in 1864-65, 1869, 1870, 1874, was made by 

 Dr. Blasius the basis (\\'ith full acknowledgment of its use) of 

 his " Ornis von Malta und Gozo " (' Ornis ' for August 1895), and 

 was noticed by Dr. P. L. Sclater in his opening address to the 

 Biological Section of the British Association, August 25th, 1875, 

 pp. 90, 117. 



