to them. Nor did he ever refer to his past career. In fact, I 

 never induced him to talk about it except in the case of the 

 Manipur expedition, on which on merely geographical grounds I 

 asked for information. He was not a copious correspondent, and 

 his letters were always strictly to the point and expressed with 

 soldierly terseness. 



Mr. Gamble, himself a botanist of distinction, who had long 

 worked with him in India, sunw up his estimate of Collett's 

 powers in words with which from my own experience I entirely 

 concur : — 



" I am convinced that if Collett had been a professional botanist 

 he would have made a great name for himself; and it is possible 

 that had he been spared, his work, supported by his knowledge of 

 the world, his wide reading and by his distrust of anything he 

 could not personally verify, would have been more original and 

 so perhaps more valuable. He was quite undaunted ; he talked 

 of taking up the Simla mosses when his Phanerogamic Flora 

 should be published 1 "' 



I devote these words to the memory of my friend, 1 will but 

 add this : no one who has ever come to work amongst us at Kew 

 has more completelv won the affectionate regard of evervone with 



. T. Thiselton-Dyer. 



Mr. Thomas William Brown, formerly a memlier <>j 

 gardening staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, who recently rt 

 from the post of Assistant Curator of the Botanic Station, A 

 Gold Coast, on the ground of ill-health, has been engaged I 

 out the gardens of the Sultan of Morocco at Fez. 



Mr. John Erskinb Leslie, a member of tl 

 of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been a 

 recommendation of Kew, by the Secretary of 

 Council, a probationer gardener for employm 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 



t, a member of the gardening 

 j, has been appointed, on the 

 Secretary of State for the 

 the Virgin Islands. 



Mr. Alexander Hislop, a member of the gardening htatf of 

 tiie Royal Botanic Gardens, has been apjjointed Assistant 

 Superintendent of the Municipal Gardens, Outenstown, Cape 



