Hermann Wendland.— Hermann Wendland, the distinguished 

 Director of the famous Royal Gardens at Herrenhausen, who died 

 on January 12, 1903, after a long illness, stands out conspicuously 

 as one who has accomplished much in the fields of both botany 

 and horticulture. 



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and where he received his early training. He afterwards worked 

 for a time in the Botanic Gardens atGottingen and in the Imperial 

 Gardens at Schonbrunn, proceeding thence to Kew. Here he was 

 employed for nearly two years as a gardener, leaving in J 849 to 

 return to Herrenhausen as assistant to his father, whom he suc- 

 ceeded as Director on the latter's death in 1870. In 1857 he was 

 sent on a botanical expedition to Guatemala and Central America, 

 where he collected many new and interesting plants, several of 

 which he introduced to cultivation. Amongst these, perhaps the 

 most notable was Anthurmm scJierzerianum, which he found in 

 Costa Rica. 



He prepared and published in 1854 a list of the palms cultivated 

 in European collections. This was followed by researches amongst 

 the species of this difficult order with so much zeal and activity 

 that he soon became the recognised authority with regard to them. 

 In their cultivation he was no less enthusiastic and successful, 

 and the collection of palms at Herrenhausen probably rivals even 

 that of Kew. 



Mr. George S. Jenman, F.L.S., was born in the south of 

 England in 1845. After a period of training at Kew he was 

 appointed, in 1873, Superintendent of the Castleton Garden, 

 Jamaica. Six years later he became Government Botanist and 

 Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, Georgetown, British 

 Guiana, a post he held until his death on February 28, 1903. 

 While in this position he was largely occupied in developing the 

 economic resources of the colony. In this direction mention 

 must be made of the important series of experiments with seedling 

 sugar-canes which he carried out, at first on his own initiative and 

 later in association with Professor Harrison, the Government 

 Chemist. His principal botanical w^ork was amongst the Ferns of 

 the West Indies, to which he had long devoted special attention. 

 In addition to numerous descriptions of new species published in 

 various journals, he published in 1881 a Hand-list of Jamaica 

 Ferns ; and in 1898 commenced in the Bulletin of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, an enumeration, with descriptions, of 

 the Ferns of the British West Indies and Guiana, a work for which 

 he was eminently qualified, but which unfortunately he was 

 destined not to carry to completion. 



Mr. J. F. DUTHIE, B.A., F.L.S., having retired from the positic 

 of Director of the Botanical Department of Northern India, hi 

 been appointed Assistant for India on the staff of the Roy 

 Botanic Gardens by the Secretarv of State for India in Council. 



