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IN MEMORY OF DANIEL OLIVER 

 (1830-1917). 



By James Brittex, F.L.S. 



Bv the death of Daniel Oliver at the advanced age of 86, England 

 has been deprived of one who, during his long period of scientific 

 activity, stood in the foremost rank of systematic botanists. To the 

 present generation his name will be unfamiliar, except in so far as 

 his patronymic is associated with his son, who succeeded him in his 

 professorship ; but the older among us, and indeed systematists 

 generally, cannot fail to have been acquainted with his work and will 

 join with me in paying tribute to his memory. 



Daniel Oliver was born at Newcastle-on-Tjme on the 6th of 

 February, 1830, He was educated at Wigton, at the school of the 

 Society of Friends — a body from which so many of our botanists 

 have come, and of which he always remained a member — and early- 

 showed a marked interest in natural history. His first contribution 



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