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charge in a singular degree, and he equally secured and retained 

 the confidence of those under whom he served. 



" Mr. Lyttelton wishes as Secretary of State for the Colonies to 

 bear witness at once to his public services and to the character 

 and qualities which inspired those services : and he would put on 

 record in this letter, a copy of which will be sent to the High 

 Commissioner for the Federated Malayan States, his sense of the 

 lasting gratitude which is due to the name and the memory of 

 Sir Hugh Low from all who dwell in or are concerned with the 

 British possessions and Protectorates in the Malay Indies. 



" I am, Madam, your obedient servant, 



(Signed) C. P. Lucas." 



The Linnean Society cannot fail to deplore the loss of one who 

 was so great an ornament to its ranks, and whose companionship 

 in the past would have been still more emphatically cherished, had 

 not his serene unconsciousness of his own distinguished capacity 

 kept him ever in the background. [T. E. E. S.] 



JoHis^ George Ltjehma]s'n^ was boi-n in 1843, and settled in 

 Victoria in 1862. Pive years later he became secretary to Sir 

 Perdinand von Mueller, and remained m the department of 

 Grovernment Botany till shortly before his death. In this post 

 he made the preliminary examination of the large accessions from 

 various parts of Australia \Ahich were received at Melbourne, and 

 were described by P. von Mueller, during the last eighteen years 

 of his life, hereby acquiriug a critical knowledge of the large 

 genera Eucalyptus and Acacia. In 1896, after the death of his 

 chief, he was appointed Curator of the National Herbarium, and 

 subsequently Government Botanist. His published works were 

 confined to short papers in the local societies' publications, 

 one, reprinted from the issues of the Pield Naturalists' Club of 

 Victoria, is entitled " Eeliquise Muellerianse," Melbourne, 1896, a 

 small pamphlet of a few pages. Confining his attention to the 

 work of his department, he has left no printed record to testify to 

 his acquirements, beyond the acknowledgment printed by his chief 

 in the preface to the ' Key to the System of Victorian Plants ' in 

 1885. Mr. Luehmann joined our Society on 16th April, 1885, 

 and died on 18th November, 1904, aged sixty-one. [B. D. J.] 



Eobeet McLachlax, P.E.S., P.L.S., P.Z.S., *S:c., died at bis 

 residence, Westview, Clarendon Eoad, Lewisham, on the 23rd 

 May, 1904, in the 68th year of his age. 



He was born at Upper East Smithfield on the 10th April, 1837, 

 and was the son of Hugh McLachlan of Glasgow, who in early 

 life settled in London. The early years of E. McLachlan's life 

 were largely spent in the neighbourhood of Hainault Forest, near 

 which his father had a small farm, and there he first acquired 

 his love for Natural Historv. When he was about 16 he lost 



