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may be mentioned one on the flora of Madagascar based on the 
collections of Mr. A. Mocquerys, and his descriptions of various 
previously undifferentiated species, especially from south-eastern 
Asia. The published results of his biological studies on mono- 
spermous capsules are also of much interest and reveal a capacity 
for sustained research which enables us to realise how much 
botanical science has lost by his death at the age of 51. But one 
advantage of his wide and varied education was that his scientific 
interests were not confined to botany alone. He took a very active 
part in the business of the Société helvetique des Sciences 
naturelles, as well as in that of the Société botanique de Genéve 
and the Société botanique suisse. In the case of the Société de 
physique et d’histoire naturelle, of which he was President in 
1914, he served for many years, and greatly to its benefit, as 
Treasurer of the Association. 
After 1911 the scientific pursuits of Augustin de Candolle were 
greatly impeded by new and important duties of another char- 
acter. His urbanity of manner and streneth of character, his 
English education and his sound legal training rendered him an 
ideal incumbent of the post of British Consul for the Canton of 
Geneva, to which he was a pointed on Ist January, 1912. 1e 
eight years during which he fulfilled its duties included the whole 
of the trying period of the great war, and provided him with 
of British travellers whose business necessitated recourse to the 
advice and assistance of their Consul during the anxious period 
1914-18. 
that he was abandoning his post, and his many fri , conscious 
of his great natural gifts and aware of the promise aff by 
his earlier but all too scanty contributions to science, looked 
pier PoWELL.—We record with deep regret the death of Mr. 
iiss 
ic Plants Division in the Agricultural Department of the 
can Protectorate, and Was about to sail for home after 
his many years of Colonial service. Mr. Powell came to Kew as 
a young gard 
pies e. Pardener in. 1888, and in May, 1890, wad. appointed 
urator of the Botanic Gardens in the Island of St. Vihtent. This 
_ Mr. Powell had only recently resigned the post of Chief of the 
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