4P PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. Hemsley and, so far as the later orders are concerned, his co- 

 operators. 



i\ B. J'orbes's association with the Linnean Society dates back 

 to 2nd December, 1875, and he served on its Council from 1885 

 to 1887. He was for a long time Swedish and Norwegian Consul- 

 General at Shanghai, andinconsiderationof his services was made 

 a Knight Commander of the Swedish Eoyal Order of Wasa. 



[O. S.] 



Alfeed Giakd was born in the year 1846. After passing throiigh 

 the Ecole normale superieure, in 1871 he became assistant to Lacaze- 

 Duthiers, whence he went to Lille as assistant-professor in 1873. 

 As early as 1869 he had in conjunction with Max Cornu printed 

 in the * Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Prance ' a paper on 

 the hermaphroditism of Melandryum alhnn infested with Ustilago 

 antJierarum, a phenomenon which under the term " castration 

 parasitaire " interested him throughout life. 



From Lille in 1888 he was called to Paris to lecture in the 

 Paculte des Sciences, and in 1892 he became titular professor at 

 the Sorboune, and in 1900 chosen into the Academie ■ des 

 Sciences. 



In the ' Bulletin Scientifique de Prance,' a serial of which he 

 was editor from 1878, in vol. 42, pp. xlv-lxxiii, is given a list 

 of 624 papers published by Giard, to 1908 the year of his death, 

 exclusive of many articles in the ' Grande Eucyclopedie ' and the 

 ' Botanisches Centralblatt.' He himself in his ' Expose des titres 

 et travaux scientifiques,' 1896, grouped his various memoirs under 

 twelve subject headings, but embryology and parasitism were his 

 favourite subjects, though, far from confining his attention to them, 

 he took in a wide extent of study. The zoological station of 

 Wimereux, near Boulogne, was established by him in 1874, and 

 his chief pleasure was to settle down in those quarters for such 

 periods as his professorial duties in Paris permitted, busy on 

 material obtained from the sea wdthin a few yards of his study. 



He was one of the Prench delegates at Uppsala and Stockholm 

 at the Linnean festivities in May 1907, with Madame Giard, a 

 lady of English birth. Early in 1908 he wrote accepting the 

 invitation of our Council to the Darwin-AVallace Celebration, but 

 before that took place, a stroke of apoplexy disabled him, and 

 though he partially recovered his powers, a second stroke was 

 quickly fatal : he died in August, 1908. He Mas elected a Poreign 

 Member on the 1st May, 1902. 



He is described as possessing a rare and attractive personality, 

 which attached his pupils strongly to him, and roused their 

 enthusiasm. Yet he could write, " Pour ma part, dans ma carriere 

 dcja longue du professorat, je ne crois pas avoir forme un seul 

 naturaliste " ; this is possibly explained by his high ideal of what 

 a fully equipped naturalist should be. [B. D. J.] 



