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awkward questions were got over or mnoothed away bv Iiis acute 

 mind. His quick grasp of essentials and strong conimoii sense 

 enabled him repeatedly to brush aside legal cobwebs which would 

 have hindered the work in hand. As an instance, he was detained 

 in town from joining the Council [)ruictually. Meanwhile a certain 

 member of the Council had spoken, saying that the course of action 

 favoured by the majority present could not legally be carried out, 

 when Sir Frank entered. On his heing seated, the President 

 stated the condition of things, and that the majority of the Council 

 inclined to such and such a course. "Certainly; why not?" 

 was the downright and briet' remark from Sir Frank, which com- 

 pletely altered the aspect of things from that prevailing before his 

 entry. 



Mention has been made of his open-handedness as Secretary of 

 tlie Royal Microscopical Society. The same generous spirit was 

 shown to the Linnean Society, as the following instauces will 

 prove : — 



The cost of the installation of the electric light was borne by 

 him ; he gave the sculptor's model of the statue of C. v. Lmne 

 (which stands behind the Koyal Library, Stockholm) ; the table 

 for the Meeting-Koom was provided by him, also, at a later date, 

 the clock and surrounding oak moidding; the cost of the Supple- 

 mentary Charter; a Fund of £200 for Microscopical Research; 

 the Wallichian cabinets when the plants were presented to Kew, 

 and new shelving to accommodate the Wallace library in 1915; 

 the phototyped copy of the Vienna ' Codex Aniciae Julianae ' of 

 Dioscorides ; the 17 volumes of ' Lindenia ' ; and a complete set 

 of Bulliard's volumes on the French Flora. 



He died, as noted above, at his country seat on the 29tli April, 

 and was buried at Henley Cemetery on the 3rd jNlay, amid a large 

 gathering, the parish church being crowded. Sir David Praiu, our 

 President, representing this Society. 



He is succeeded in the title by his eldest son. Sir Frank Morris 

 Crisp, 2nd baronet. 



Our late colleague, with pathetic prescience, caused to be cut 

 on the walls of one of the lodges at Friar Park the following 

 well-known lines of Horace (Odes II, xiv.) : — 



Linquenda tellus et doimis et phicens 

 uxor, neque hai'inn, quas colis, arboriim 



te pricter invii^as cnpressos 



nlla brevein (loiuinuin seqiietur. 



In closing, a personal note may be allowed in memory of a 

 friendship of nearly seventy years — from boyhood to old age — 

 only now broken by death ; the loss is irreparable. [B. D. J.] 



Anxe Casimir Pyuamus de Candolle, F.M.L.S., the eldest 

 son of Alphonse Pierre de Candolle, also one of our Foreign 

 Members, aiul Jeanne Victoire Laure Kunkler, was born at 

 Oeneva on 20th Februai*y, 1836. He received his early education 



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