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The recipient made an ackuowledgmeut in reply as follows : — 



Mr. President, — 



Tlie moment and the v^ery kind words which you have spoken 

 about me naturally commit me to retrospection with thoughts — 

 had this been done otherwise, liad that been left undone, might 

 not more and better things have been done ? — with thoughts also 

 of those kind friends — many they are — to whose advice, encourage- 

 ment, and co-operation I owe so much for anything that has been 

 done. And the picture I see is one of lights and shadows evoking 

 not unmixed feelings. You. however, have decreed that I am not 

 to be the grave of my own deservings, and I accept tlie honour 

 you confer upon me to-day — in the terms of the award the highest 

 mark of esteem in the power of the Society to bestow — with satis- 

 faction born of the greatest gratification. It comes to me, Sir, 

 with all the real value of spontaneous tribute from my compeers, 

 telling me that in some ways at least during the now many years 

 in which I have shared in holding aloft the torch of botanical 

 science I have not been unworthy. The acclaim of one's fellow- 

 workers in " well-done " is assuredly the greatest of all honours — 

 a prize to be cherished. That you have given me to-day and I 

 thank you. 



The General Secretary having laid upon the table the Obituary 

 Notices of certain deceased Fellows, the proceedings terminated. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



Edward Alexander Newell Arber, M.A., Sc.D.— By the prema- 

 ture death of Newell Arber on June 14th, 1918, the Society has 

 lost one of its ablest Fellows, and Botany, especially Pala3obotany, 

 one of its most energetic and devoted workers. 



Newell Arber was born in London on August 5th, 1870. His 

 father, Edward Arber, became Professor of English at Mason's 

 College, Birmingham, and was well known as the editor of many 

 English Classics. 



Newell Arber's health compelled him to make a long stay at 

 Davos, at the age of 15. It was then tliat he first came to know 

 the Alpine Flora, to which he was passionately devoted tlu-ough- 

 out his life. Prof. Oliver, F.E.S., writes of their first meeting in 

 the early nineties : "We soon discovered a common entluisiasm 

 for the Alps, which in Arber's case was all-consuming. So far as 

 he was concerned there was an alpine botany and other botany — 

 the latter he regarded through the glamour of the former." 



