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Librarian to the Eoyal Dublin Society, from which post he retired 

 in 1895. 



We regret that space will not allow us this month to notice the 

 Memorials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale 

 Babington. (Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes), which Mrs. Babington 

 has brought together in a handsome volume. To her kindness we 

 are indebted for the excellent portrait of the late Professor which 

 will form the frontispiece to the Journal for this year, and which 

 is reprinted from the Memorials. 



Dr. Friedrich August Fliickiger, the distinguished pharmacolo- 

 gist, died at Berne on December 11, 1894, and a Fliickiger Memorial 

 Fund was started early in the following year. After much delibe- 

 ration, the Committee responsible for the application of the Fund 

 decided to perpetuate the memory of the deceased professor in two 

 ways — first, by awarding a gold medal for distinguished services in 

 the promotion of pharmaceutical research ; and second, by making 

 grants in aid of research or for kindred purposes, or by giving 

 prizes. The present year was fixed by the Committee as the date 

 of the first award of the medal. The German and Swiss Pharma- 

 ceutical Associations (Apotheker-Verein) are alternately to serve as 

 the means of communication between the trustees of the Fund and 

 the recipients of the medal, and at the recent meeting of the German 

 Apotheker-Verein at Strasburg, the President — Herr Frolich — 

 announced that it had been decided to award the first medal to 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes. 



From an article on the award in the Pharmaceutical Journal 

 we learn that Mr. Holmes was born at Wendover, in Bucking- 

 hamshire, a little village at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 

 on January 29, 1843. He received his scholastic education at 

 Boston and Wimborne, and even during his early years manifested 

 a great fondness for flowers; at the age of fourteen he was ap- 

 prenticed to a pharmacist in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. In 1863 he 

 obtained thePharmaceutical Society's bronze medal for an herbarium 

 collected during the preeeiling twelve months. He had previously 

 (1860) been awarded certificates in chemistry and pharmacy, botany 

 and materia medica, at the Society's School of Pharmacy, and in 

 due course he passed both the Minor and Major examinations and 

 became registered as a pharmaceutical chemist. He began business 

 in Plymouth, but commerce had no charms for him, and much of 

 his time was devoted to the study of the flora of the district. In 

 1872 Mr. Holmes was appointed Curator of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society's Museum in Bloomsbury, a position which he still holds, 

 and in which he has rendered great services to economic botany. 



Mr. J. B. Carruthers has just started for Ceylon, where he 

 has been commissioned by the Planters' Association to undertake 

 investigations into plant diseases. 



