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the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was a Fellow ; his interest 

 in the excavations at Silchester resulted in the acquisition of 

 material lor the reports made by Mr. Clement Eeid on the 

 plant-remains found on that site. 



He died in his house at Blackheath, after five days' illness of 

 acute pneumonia, on the 3rd October, 1916, and was buried at 

 Shooter's Hill Ceuietery. [B. D. J.] 



Lieut.-Colonel Kaxoba Eaxchoddas Kiutikar, I.M.S., was born 

 in 1850, and after a bi'illiant career at school, he spent three years 

 in the Grant Medical College at Bombay. In 1874 he came to 

 England to finish his medical education, and distinguished himself 

 at LTuiversity College, Gower Street. In 1876 he qualified for 

 medical practice, and in the year following he was successful at 

 the I.M.S. examination. He chose Bombay and served with native 

 Indian regiments at Sholapur, Karachi, and Hydei'abad. He saw 

 service in the second Afghan war, and was preseiat at the historic 

 fight of Mai wand, being afterwards awarded the Afghan medal and 

 clasp. On returning home he became Civil Surgeon at Thana, 

 and in 1886 Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Bombay, the 

 next year Professor of Materia Medica, and subsequently acted as 

 Professor of Botany. After twenty-seven years of service he 

 retired on reaching the age of 55. 



His chief works are his 'Poisonous Plants of the Bombay 

 Presidency,' which was partly illustrated by himself, and, along 

 with Major B. D. Basu, ' Indian Medicinal Plants,' a book of 

 1000 quarto plates now ])assing through the press. He was 

 one of the founders of the Bombay Natural History Society 

 and secretary of its botanical section. The Moss Bri/osedgivickia 

 KirWkarii, Card. & Dixon, was named after him, the authors 

 stating that his "contributions to the botany of South India 

 are numerous and valuable, and who has collected a number 

 of interesting mosses from the Pooua and Bombay districts." 

 He was elected Pellow, 2nd March, 1893, and died ou the 

 9th May, 1917, of consumption. [B. D. J.] 



Nicholas Hexry Martin, J.P., of Ravenswood, Low Fell, 

 Gatesliead, was a member of the firm of Brady and Martin, Ltd. 

 for forty vears. He was born in Cornwall in 1847, and served 

 his apprenticeship with a Penryn chemist, after a grammar- 

 school education. He was an insatiable reader, and conned all 

 available books, including Bentley's ' Manual of Botany,' and, with 

 it as a guide, became acquainted with the common plants of the 

 neighbourhood. During his apprenticeship his fatlier died, and 

 our late Fellow came to London in May 1867, and took a situa- 

 tion in Bruton Street at a salary of £30 a year indooi's. Out of 

 this slender emolument, in the following October, he paid the fees 

 for courses of lectures on chemistry (Redwood) and botany 

 (Bentley) at the Pharmaceutical Society in Bloomsbury Square. 

 He passed his Minor examination in February 1868, and in May 



