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puppies which he had bred at Verrieres. But though the gayest in 

 every society, delighting us all with his quick humour and flashes of 

 esprit (/aiilois, he could work as well as the dullest. His accuracy 

 was of the best kind. lie had prodigious knowledge of cultivated 

 plants, but it' he did not know a ihing he would say so, and with 

 his vast professional acquaintance in the botanical and horticultural 

 world-^ he could generally give you a useful reference. Types 

 recur and some day there may be others like him, but liis qualities 

 combine together very rarely, and it may be long enough before 

 nature repeats the splendid production we knew as Philippe de 

 Vihuorin. Born in 1872, he became a Fellow on 6th February, 

 1908, and died on the 30th June, 1917. [W. Bateson.] 



Edwaed John Woodhouse died of wounds received in action in 

 France on the 18th December, 1917, at the age of 33. 



Born in 1884, our late Fellow went up to Ti-inity College, 

 Cambridge, whence he graduated in 1906, proceeding M.A. in 

 1911. In October 1907 he was appointed Economic Botanist 

 to the Government of Bengal, and at once went out to India. 

 After three years' work there he was appointed Principal of the 

 Agricultural College of Sabour, Bihar and Orissa, while retaining 

 his other appointment, and his services were of great value to the 

 comnumity, in one instance saving the Government at least four 

 lakhs of rupees ( = £26,500) by his treatment of a field pest. 



At the outbreal\ of the war he was a captain in the Bihar Light 

 Horse, and finally was allowed to join the Indian Army Reserve 

 of Officers, and in Febz'uary 1915 was attached to another cavalry 

 regiment as signalling officer, acting adjutant, and officiating 

 squadron commander. 



He was elected Fellow on the 17th June, 1909. [B. D. J.] 



The circumstances under which our late Librarian, Edwin 

 Epiiraim Eiseley, died warrant an obituary notice. He was 

 born at Abbots Eiptou on the 15th Febi'uary, 1889, the only son 

 of his parents. On leaving school at the age of 15 he became 

 Library Cleric to the Zoological Society, where he acquired an 

 excellent knowledge of library methods and of zoological literature. 

 In the spring of 1914 an assistant was wanted in our library, and 

 Mr. Eiseley was chosen for the post, and from the outbreak of 

 war in that year the charge of the library and of our pubhcations 

 devolved upon him, for on the 31st July the then Librarian, 

 August Wilhelm Kappel, started as usual to visit his relatives 

 near Diisseldorf ; four days later the w:ir broke out. For some 

 undisclosed reason he came back about the middle of August, and 

 was permitted by the police to stay at Teignmouth, in Devonshire. 

 Having been informed that Kapjiel, an enemy alien and not 

 naturalized, had not been registered by the police, the officers of the 

 Society remaining in Britain suspended Kapi)el from his functions, 

 and when on the 1st September he presented himself for duty 

 he was forbidden to enter. The President having returned from 



