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receive all the publications of the Congress. Ladies accompany- 

 ing members may attend the meetings and excursions of the 

 Congress on payment of ten shillings each. 3. The work of the 

 Congress shall include the different branches of Botanical Science; 

 and the Congress will also carry on the work on (1) Nomenclature, 

 and (2) Bibliography and Documentation, left over from the 

 previous Meeting. The permanent Bureaus entrusted with the 

 work concerned with (1) Nomenclature, and (2) Bibliography and 

 Documentation will act in conjunction with the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 4. Any language may be used in the discussions ; if 

 desired by the Members, propositions shall be translated forthwith 

 into English, French, and German. English shall be the official 

 language of the Congress. Particulars of meetings, discussions, 

 excursions, &c, will be issued later." The organizing committee 

 is composed of the Presidents already named and of the following 

 Vice-Presidents : Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, W. Bateson, Esq., Dr. 

 F. E. Blackman, Sir Francis Darwin, Prof. H. H. Dixon, G. 

 Claridge Druce, Esq., Prof. J. B. Farmer, A. D. Hall, Esq., Dr. 

 W. B. Hemsley, Dr. E. Kidston, Prof. F. W. Oliver, E. L. Praeger, 

 Esq., Miss E. Sargant, Dr. D. H. Scott, A. G. Tansley, Esq., Prof. 

 S. H. Vines, H. W. T. Wager, Esq. The long list of members 

 fully represents British Botany. The Executive Committee con- 

 sists of the Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretaries, together with 

 Prof. J. B. Farmer, Mr. A. W. Hill, Prof. F. Keeble, Prof. F. W. 

 Oliver, Mr. A. G. Tansley, and Miss E. N. Thomas. Sir Frank 

 Crisp and Dr. Stapf are respectively Treasurer and Foreign 

 Secretary. 



To meet the various expenses connected with the Congress it 

 is estimated that a sum of at least £1000 will be required ; and in 

 order to provide this sum the Committee are asking for contri- 

 butions from those interested in Botany in the British Isles. 



ADOLPHUS HENEY KENT. 

 (1828-1913.) 



A life of strenuous industry in the face of considerable 

 physiological disadvantages was that which has just come to its 

 close in the death of Adolphus Henry Kent. He was born, I 

 believe, in my own native village, Bletchingley, Surrey, in 1828, 

 where his father was Vestry Clerk and village schoolmaster. 

 With pale sandy hair that early became white, extremely short- 

 sighted, and almost stone deaf, he was severely handicapped in 

 life's race. I first remember him — about fifty-five years ago, 

 when he was acting as his father's assistant, as my father's 

 friendly rival in the budding and cultivation of roses. He taught 

 me the rudiments of Latin grammar before I went to school, and 

 I well remember how when I had declined Musa he asked me 

 when I was going to begin. He taught himself French and some 

 German, so as to graduate as B.A. in the University of London ; 



