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the technical scientific training there received, and after five 
years’ experience in good private gardens, he came to the Royal 
Hesanstat Gardens, Kow, in 1888, v8 as a “‘ youn gardener." és «His 
orchid department. In 1891 as an accomplished and reliable 
young man, he was recommended to the Secretary of. State for 
the Colonies as Assistant Superintendent to Mr. Ford in Hong- 
kong. Before leaving England he had married Miss Elizabeth 
Aikman, sister of Mr. John Aikman, then and still assistant in 
the Director’s Office at Kew, thus further cementing an associa- 
tion which he was destined to maintain as long as he lived to the 
mutual advantage of his new department and the one he was 
leaving. 
Mr. and Mrs. Tutcher were very happy in Hongkong and very 
busy. His free days were nearly always spent in botanical ex- 
ploration of the island, and for many years he might be seen on 
almost any fine holiday tramping off to Mt. Parker, from whose 
gulleys and ravines he usually returned about nightfall and 
emptied out on the herbarium table his miscellaneous spoils. 
glance at the list of advons to the Hongkong i) during his 
time gives some idea of the success of his outin 
In 1915, he wabliched as a supplement to his ee an account 
of an expedition to an area on the N. River, which had not been 
previously visited by a botanist. To do this he took advantage 
of four consecutive holidays and returned with examples of five 
ao species as well as of a great many additions to the provincial 
ora 
In 1904, he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and 
attended the meetings at Burlington House on the rare occasions 
when he was on leave. In 1910 he became Superintendent of the 
Botanical and Forestry ae cma In 1912 he published with 
his predecessor, Mr. S. T. Dunn, the Flora of Kwangtung and 
Eee vol. X. of the pee Series of this periodical, 
Sees was moe appreciated in Hongkong and neighbour- 
ing parts of China. 
The herbarium of his department contains, of course, the great 
bulk of Mr. Tutcher’s botanical specimens, but several hundreds 
of them may be seen in the Kew Herbarium, and in that at 
Manila te : 
Camellia Berges rane hae Mr. cies, pointed out ~ 
distinctive characters (cf Journ. Bot. xlvi. 324). Many ne 
species discovered by Mr. Tutcher were at ‘different times balled 
after him. He himself published many novelties, aneluding a 
new genus (Dunnia, Tutcher, Rubiaceae, Journ. Lin : 
XXxvil. 69) Quercus ‘Elizabethae, Tutcher, called after ve wife 
