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at Dehra Dun, and others to private friends, and since his deatli 

 his own set has become the property of the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Grarden at Edinburgh. The specimens were 

 always beautifully prepared and very carefully labelled bv himself. 

 After his retirement he spent much time at the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden at Ivew, where, with the help of Mr. W. (1. 

 Ci'aib and others of the Kew staff, lie continued the elaboration 

 of his Burma List, and published many new species in the 

 ' Kew Bulletin.' He also then commenced work on a Forest 

 Flora of the Maymyo Hills, unfortunately left incomplete at his 

 death, though there is hope that it may be finished by others. 



J. H. Lace married the eldest daughter of Mr. W. H- Reynolds, 

 F.R.G.S., the Superintendent of Indian Forest Survevs, and 

 leaves a wddow and three daughters. He settled at Exmouth in 

 Devonshire. After the war broke out he was indefatigable as a 

 me))iber of the Exmouth Volunteers and as a special constable, 

 and his sad death on June 9th, 1918, was due to cinll caught 

 while on duty. Had he been spared to leave such duties at the 

 €ud of the war, he would undoubtedly have increased very much 

 the authority of his name as the chief writer on the Botany of 

 Burma, and e-^pecially of the Upper Districts whicli did not come 

 within the purview of !S. Ivurz's work of 1877. 



[J. S. Gamble.] 



By the death of Dr. Albeeto Lofgren, F.L.S., Brazilian botany 

 loses its most capable and ex])ert local student. Born in 

 Stockholm in September 1854, he studied at the University of L^pp- 

 sala, but just before taking his doctorate, was apj^ointed assistant 

 to Mosen upon a Eegnell expedition to southern Brazil, spending 

 the years 1874-7 upon the botanical exploration of the States of 

 Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes. Taking a great fancy to the 

 country, he remained there at the close of the expedition, and 

 was for the next three years employed upon the Paulista Railway. 

 From. 1880 to 188f' he was teaching in Sao Paulo c-ity, and was 

 then appointed botanist and meteorologist to the Geographical 

 Commission of the state. In 1898 he started a botanical garden 

 in Sao Paulo, which had but a chequered career. Subsequently 

 he was ai)pointed botanist on the Connnission for investigation of 

 the Dry zone of Brazil, and in that capacity explored most of the 

 north-eastern states of the republic. Finally in 191;} he was 

 appointed chief of the section of vegetable physiology in the Rio 

 Botanic Gardens, and died in Rio on August 'AO, 1918. 



Liifgren devoted liimself with great energy and success to the 

 studv of the flora of Brazil, and a reference to the later volumes 

 •of the ' Flora ' of Martins will show how much that work owes to 

 his labours. His own publications were comparatively few, a result 

 largelv due to the generous way in which he always helped other 

 workers, at whatever cost in time and trouble to himself. He 



