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Among other important journeys, he was attached to the 
Staff of the General Commanding in the “ Black Mountain ” 
Campaign of 1888 and greatly prized the medal he had earned 
under fire. He paid special attention to the grasses of Northern 
India, and his list of them was published at Roorkee in 1883 
and 1886. He also, as might have been expected from his 
work in the Saharanpur Garden, where so much was done in 
cultivating for seed and for improved varieties the edible vege- 
tables of India, published in 3 Parts in 1882-93, partly in 
conjunction with Mr. J. B. (now Sir J. Bampfylde) Fuller, a 
full account, with plates, of the Field and Garden Crops of the 
North-Western Provinces. His tours produced also many papers 
on the Floras of the regions visited by himself or by those who 
sent their collections to Saharanpur from Kashmir, Merwara, 
Kumaon, Chitral, &c. 
In addition to his work at Saharanpur, he lectured every 
year on the Systematic Botany of India at the Forest School 
at Dehra Dun and usually accompanied the students on their 
annual tour in the Hills of Jaunsar and Tehri-Garhwal, where 
the Forests were under the management of the Government. 
He also paid a yearly visit to Calcutta, where he spent a fort- 
night of strenuous work in the Herbarium, and _ George King 
and his successor held his work in very high estee 
~ On his retirement in 1903 he returned to England, and in 
September of that year was appointed Assistant for India in 
the Herbarium at Kew, a post which he held till obliged to 
relinquish it, owing to illness, in April, 1907. During his time 
at Kew, his ‘wide knowledge of Indian plants was always at the 
disposal of those who were working on them and he described 
and published in the Kew Bulletin, the Botanical Magazine, the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle and elsewhere many important new species 
sent from India and the neighbouring regions. At the request 
of Sir Richard Strachey he revised the list of the great collec- 
tion of the plants of Kumaon and neighbouring Himalayan 
regions known as the “ Strachey and Winterbottom ” collection, 
the first edition of which was published in 1882, and the new 
revision issued in 1906. On receiving a copy of it Sir Joseph 
Hooker wrote to him “I am rejoicing over the ‘Strachey and 
Winterbottom Kumaon plants’ which is doubly important as 
showing what a marvellous collection they made in one season 
and as being an up-to-date catalogue of Kumaon plants. It 
appears to me to have been very carefully compiled by you.” — 
He also commenced and carried on from 1903 onwards, the 
‘ Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain,” which he was able before 
his death to see very near completion, and it is hoped that arrange- 
ments will shortly be made to publish the final part. The work 
was, in late years, very sadly hampered by failing health. 
Duthie married in 1879 Miss Coape-Smith, daughter of Col. 
Coape-Smith, then in charge of the Army Remount Establishment 
at Saharanpur, and we are indebted to Mrs. Duthie for kindly 
