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XII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
_ James Ramsay DrummMonp.—We regret to announce the 
death of Mr. James Ramsay Drummond, B.A., F.L.S., late 
of the Indian Civil Service, at 119, Twyford Avenue, North 
Acton, on the 11th of March. 
. Drummond was born in Scotland on the 13th May, 1851. 
He was educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and New College, 
Oxford, and appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1872, but 
he joined it only in 1874. He served in the Punjab as Assistant 
Commissioner, District Judge and Deputy Commissioner until 
his retirement in 1905. Shortly before his retirement he was 
acting for the Curator of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, during his absence. He made extensive collections in 
the Western Punjab, whose flora he knew very intimately, and 
only to a lesser extent in the neighbourhood of Dalhousie and 
Simla and in the Gangetic Plain. After his return to England 
he settled at Kew devoting most of his time to the working out 
of his collections and the preparation of a Flora of the Punjab, 
which he had undertaken to write. Ill-health interfered much 
with the progress of the work which never got beyond the initial 
stage. A few years ago he moved to Acton, where he died 
rather unexpectedly. 
Drummond was a man of unusual versatility and 
unbounded enthusiasm for botany, in the field as well as in the 
herbarium. He was endowed with a remarkable memory and 
decided linguistic gifts, and possessed a many-sided knowledge, 
which he was always ready to place at the disposal of his friends 
and fellow workers. Practically all his publications fall into the 
time after his retirement. They are not numerous and consist 
mainly of descriptions of new plants, among them the new genus 
Chamydites (Compositae), and critical notes on ‘‘ Grewias of Rox- 
burgh,” in this Bulletin (1911). An extensive paper published 
(with Prain) in the Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, 1905, 
and reprinted in the Agricultural Ledger, 1906, was devoted to 
the Agaves and Furcroyas of India. In connection with his 
studies in the latter genus he also produced “ Literature of 
Furcraeae, with a synopsis of the known species’’ which 
appeared in the Report of the Missouri Botanic Garden for 1907. 
Ropert ALLEN Rotre.—In the Kew Report for 1880 Sir J. 
D. Hooker, referring to the Herbarium, wrote :—“ Mr. R. A. 
Rolfe, an advanced gardener in the Royal Gardens, was 
appointed Second Assistant . . . after a public competition, 
conducted by the Civil Service Commission.” Rather more than 
forty years have elapsed since that announcement was made. 
Both the author and the subject of it have been removed by the 
hand of death. The young gardener, mainly dependent on his 
own ability, industry, and perseverance, became in course of 
