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founded the Marine Biological Association, of which he ia President. In 

 188.5, tlie Council of tlie Royal Society awarded to Professor Lankester 

 one of the Royal Medals in recognition of his discoveries in the field of 

 Zoology and Paloaontology, and in 1890, he was appointed to tlie 

 ■Linacre Professoiship of Human find Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, 

 which he has held till last year, when he was appointed Director of the 

 British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington. 



Sir George King, K.C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., who has 

 been an oidinary member of the Society since December, 1867, held the 

 post of Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, from 

 1871 till his retirement from the service of Government in 1898. He 

 is the author of many contributions to systematic botany. Of his 

 numerous papers on regional botany the most extensive and important 

 have been the Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, of which 

 ten parts have so far been prepared and on which Sir George is still 

 engaged. These, with numerous other less extensive papers have been 

 published in the Society's Journal to which Sir George has been, fof 

 many years, one of the largest and most important contributors. He 

 has also published in the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden several 

 monographs of the highest importance, notably a Monograph of the 

 Indo-Malayan and Chinese species of Ficus, monographs of the genera 

 Qnercus, Castanopsis, Artocarpus, Myristica and monographs of the 

 natural families MagnoUacess and Anonacese. These works are charac- 

 terised by a rare combination of accuracy of statement, lucidity of 

 description and happiness of arrangement that stamps their author as 

 one of the foremost of living taxonomic botanists. 



Sir George's services to Indian horticulture and to applied science 

 have been equally great. To his wide knowledge and his administra- 

 tive skill in th,e management of the official industries of Cinchona 

 cultivation and Quinine manufacture is due the fact that Government 

 is now able to place within reach of the poorest the invaluable remedies 

 against malaria that are obtained from Cinchona bai'k. These services 

 liave been officially recognised by the Government of India, by the 

 Governments of France and of Russia and by various scientific Societies, 

 among others by the Botanical Societies of Edinburgh, of Belgium, 

 and of Germany, by the Royal Horticultural Societies of England and 

 of Holland, and by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. Sir George was President of the Botanical Section of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science at the annufil 

 meeting of the Association held at Dover in September, 1899. 



Dr Edward Burnett Tylor, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., was educated 

 at the School of Friends, Grove House, Tottenham. He is a very 



