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Jonx Chaeles Saaveii ^as elected FelloM' of this Society on 

 the 21st April, 1881, and died at Brighton on 23rd August, 1904. 

 He brought out a sinall vokinie entitled ' Rhodologia ; a discourse 

 on Eoses and the odour of Eoses,' Brighton, 1894, and his various 

 contributions to oiir knowledge of perfumes and perfume-bearing 

 plants were issued in various journals. [B. 1). J.] 



Stephen William Silvee. — Among the Fellows whose deaths 

 it is our melancholy duty to record is the late Mr. S. W. Silver, 

 Avho passed away, after a brief illness, at his beautiful country 

 seat at Letcomb Eegis, near Wantage, on April 7th, 1905. 

 He had been confined to his house at York Gate, in London, by a 

 severe cold for several weeks, but having apparently thrown it off, 

 he was permitted by his medical attendant to return to the Manor 

 House, where he suffered a relapse to which he finally succumbed 

 at the age of eighty-five, having retained his energies and faculties 

 unimpaired almost to the very last. 



The late Mr. Silver was a many-sided man, and for a long 

 succession of years had taken an active part in many capacities. 

 In 1846 he had succeeded to the management of the export and 

 banking business founded by his father long before. This business 

 brought him into touch with prominent men in all parts of the 

 Empire. He took a special interest in the Colonies, and promoted 

 their development by the publication of a series of Handbooks, 

 AAhich became everywhere popular. He was, furthermore, the 

 proprietor for many years of a weekly newspaper called the 

 ' Colonies and India.' 



He toolv an active personal interest in all movements of a 

 philanthi'opic and charitable Icind. For some five-and-twenty 

 years he was a member of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 

 and of late years served on the Council. His annual garden 

 party at Letcomb Eegis in aid of this institution, A\hich was a 

 recurrent event for many years, will not soon be forgotten by 

 those who were privileged to be present. He was, for close on 

 fifty years, a Fellow of the Eoyal Geographical Society, and was 

 over and over again elected to the Council of that body, where his 

 business experience proved of great service. For some thirty- 

 three years he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, in whose 

 operations he always manifested a very lively interest. He \\'as 

 also an energetic member of the Eoyal Botanic Society and of the 

 Eoyal Colonial Institute. 



After giving up active business in the City, Mr. Silver con- 

 tinued to be Chairman of the India-rubber and Telegraph Com- 

 pany, in which he had a considerable financial interest, the works 

 of that Company being at Silvertown. He was a Deputy- 

 Lieutenant of the City of London, a Past-Master of the Iron- 

 mongers' Company, a Director of the London Life Association, a 

 Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital ; also of St. Bartholomew's 

 and Bridewell Hospitals. He was always a friend to geographical 



