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officers in the exploration of India that as little waste as possible 

 should occur. The material amassed in the Calcutta Herbarium 

 during his administration is enormous. Neither he himself nor 

 his staff, which in number was always very limited, could ever 

 have elabox'ated them. If, nevertheless, so much of it has become 

 in a sense the property of botanical science, it is entirely due to 

 the high-minded conception which he had of his office as custodian 

 of the Calcutta collections, and which alh.nved him to throw them 

 open Avith unstinted liberality to the workers in the home country 

 as well as abroad. The gain derived therefrom for science is no- 

 wliere more evident than in the last volumes of the ' Flora of 

 British India.' 



King's association with the Linnean Society dates back to 1870, 

 when he was elected a Fellow. The nature of his woi'k and his 

 official position led naturally to the concentration of his publica- 

 tions in one or the other of the great Calcutta serials, and his 

 contributions to the volumes of the Linnean Society were there- 

 fore few and brief, his " Observations on the genus Ficus, with 

 special references to the Indo-Malayan and Chinese species "' 

 (Journal, vol. xxiv. 1887, pp. 27-44) being the most important 

 of them. Nevertheless, the Society felt great pride in awarding 

 to its illustrious Fellow the Linnean Medal in 1901. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1887, and associated as 

 an Honorary Member with various learned Societies at home and 

 abroad. 



King was a man of one cast. If he was faithful to his office, he 

 was faithful to his friends. If he was above official nai'rowness, 

 so often the result of routine, he was equally above the petty con- 

 ceptions of private life. Liberal, generous and gentle almost to a 

 fault, he conquered wherever he came by the irresistible charm of 

 his personality. [O. S.] 



WiLDELM LiLLjEBOEG, Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Uppsala 

 University, and Foreign Member of the Linnean Society since 5th 

 May, 1870, was born in the province of Skane, onthe 6th October, 

 1816. He studied at Lund under Sven Xilsson, and travelled for 

 scientific ends in Norway, Northern Russia and Finland, the last 

 two countries in 1848, of which he brought out a I'eport in the 

 Stockholm ' Handlingar ' in 1850. Hitherto from 1843, the date 

 of his first paper, he had ranged over a wide field, writing on 

 mammals, birds, fishes and mollusca, but he now evinced a strong 

 predilection for the group of Entomostraca, at that time hardly 

 studied in Sweden. In 1853 he issued an octavo volume of more 

 than 200 pages on the Cladocera, Ostracoda, and Copepoda of 

 Scandinavia; at this time he became Assistant Professor at 

 Lund. 



Goran Wahlenberg died in 1851, the last Professor of Natural 

 History at Uppsala in the Faculty of Medicine. His chair was 



