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Angiosperms," which summarized the position by concluding that 

 Monocotyledons and Uicotyledons must have had a common 

 ancestor, and tliat there was strong reason to suppose that that 

 ancestor was tlicotyledonous and possessed other features such as 

 secondary thickening now confined to the Dicotyledons among 

 Angiosperms. 



Her earlier researches into nuclear behaviour during t'ei'tiliza- 

 tion and pre-t'ertilization stages indicate the same breadth of view 

 and thoroughness of treatment. 



Miss Sargant's general qualities and constructional ability were 

 recognized by botanists in 1913, when she was invited to act as 

 President of Section K of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at the Meeting held in Birmingham, being the 

 first woman to hold that otllce. 



Her end was undoubtedly hastened, if not brought about, by 

 a strenuous piece of war work which she carried out, in spite of 

 medical advice, as President of the Federation of University 

 Women. 



Many reasons conspired in general to keep her out of public 

 life, even the public life of Scientists ; nevertheless her genial 

 personality was appreciated by all who knew her, and her great 

 heart and lofty mind inspired the closest affection iu those privi- 

 leged to know her more intimately and who feel the w orld to be 

 the poorer by her death. [E. N. Thomas.] 



WoBTHiNGToN Geokge Smith, who died at Dunstable on the 

 27th October, 1917, was less known to the majority of the 

 present generation of Fellows than to their predecessors, owing 

 to his having, for motives of health, removed to Bedfordshire 

 more than thirty years ago. 



He was born in London in 1835 and intended for an architect, 

 studying under Mr. A. E. Johnson of Buckingham Street, Strand, 

 and Mr. (afterwards Sir) Horace Jones, and became aji expert 

 draughtsman. Gradually he relinquished architectural drawing 

 for plants, especially Fungi, and in 1865 he received the Banksian 

 Medal in gold from the Eoyal Horticultural Society for coloured 

 plant drawings, and the next year he wrote a paper on the 

 corona of Narcissus for the International Botanical Congress 

 which met in London in 1866. Twelve mouths later he 

 lithographed two large sheets iu colour of 'Edible and 

 Poisonous Mushrooms' for Mr. liobert Hardwicke, the publisher, 

 apparently his first publication. In 1869 he became associated 

 with ' The Gardeners' Chronicle,' then under the editorship of 

 Dr. M. T. Masters, who happened to see some of Mr. Smith's 

 drawings designed to illustrate Goethe's 'Metamorphosis of 

 Plants,' an association which lasted to the close of Mr. Smith's 

 active life. At the sanie period he became an artist for the 

 ' Floral Magazine,' subsequently its editor till 1876. Another 

 volume ' Mushrooms and Toadstools ; how to distinguish edible 

 and poisonous Fungi ' reached its second edition in 1875. 



