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X.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Mr. George Browx Mould, a member of tlie gardening- -staff of 

 t lie Eoyal Botanic Gardens, lias been appointed by the Secretary 

 of State for India in Council, on the recommendation of Kew, a 

 probationer gardener for service in India. 



Tif''^/ w-i?-^^''^^'-~-^°*^''^ ^'^^ suffered a serious loss bv tlie 



Will 



lie was a member of a Swiss family wbicb had boon settled in 

 Lanton \aud smce the early years of the 15th century; his father 

 however spent many years in New York, where all 'the children 

 Trl ii 1 "^ """"^ ^"'"- H^' ^^'^ yo^"^Rest of the six, was born 

 aus?oro ^? ' ""''7 ^f^%'' ""'' ^"^-^ 14' 1842. His father was an 



actol ^ '^ ^ ^""^'' l"^^^ Physically and left its nmrk on his char- 

 Genevn 17 ^'Ti i^^ *" ^'' twentieth year he was educated at 



Vnnto . 'S^^?^^ ^'^* *" ^^'''' ^« «t"^v engineering at the 

 Eeole Centrale, but illness compelled him to abandT.n his studies in 



be intJfflr'-Tl •'''"' ^'' stayed with relations at Havre, and then 



n \.w Yn i V'"'''''''^' ^" J^^"^^^*^ ^'' ^^^^^' ^^"^^"-r n^ lousiness 

 he t?rToT.^ ? T'*^ ''V^''^«^ ^^^^^'^^' ^""1 "ut of the career 



hea th C T 1 ''''^' •w'^" ^"^^- ^^^ "^^y^^^ ^^-^i^l^ restored his 

 neaiin, Jie naicl a \-i<^i h^ l.ic >,„+•„. i... 1 " i ,1 „ , ,, 



conner.f.-oTi ^l,;.i. i "i 7^ ""^ -'"^^^ ^^inu, aiui mere tormed tJie 

 connection T^hioh decided the course of his life 



BarW nowT''''' ^''^ ^'"'^1 Y' ^^-l^^^lfellow at Geneva, and 

 the WanH ^"^"l ^^^^^P^^ted with Agenor's brother Edmund, 



boLre [ntit^t^ r 'f fl' ^^' ^^''^^ ^^^^^"^' '^^'^ i* ^vas not long 



StiTotanv nud l^^^8-l^ e^- Caroline. Boissiei- initiated Barbey 

 Z ^S^'"^^ '^ '''^' ¥ ^-1^0 iii^stilled into him that tasti 



-i^^f^t.^^^^ gardening which 



the LdaerranerT^o'' activity concerned two great sections of 

 Barbey's\'S^ ^^^^^ ^^^^'1^^'« "Orient." 



lotteisi o^ AKio CO n r ^^rr7f^~^'' translated Honker's 

 '']NWsi?r un vov.. :? P" >lished (together with Buinat) 

 x^oies sm uu Aoyage dans les iles Bafeares " (lR^o\ ij;i 



^^Z'ii^^'^::r^'fVi'^ a.d a dtveloK of tt 



tions a^ - Herbor^s.tL '^^f *''^ ^^^;,^^^^ ^^*^^^ «* «^^^^» P^Wica- 

 f^„,,-. ^w,n^?*!?"^'^tions au Levant" nsS'>^ ''t...,i;^-^ t ,..,v 



(1882), " Lydie, Lycie^ 



(1884) 



ycae Pro- 

 bet we en 



dron us " (1910Vdsn ' T T! ^""^ "' *^'^' ^'^o^ae Lib. 



and in ISSO^i'^'^iS^t 7'^P.?,"i *'': Bi„,,nian Olympus, 



••"" m iosu he visited Egypt Paestim. i' ;■";'"■"'"'. "'1"'»; 



Cyprus. In ordpr to «„nnlt., \ »■ ' ^^ <^stem Syria and 



-_____JZl_!l'"PP''''''™t "'« material collected on his 



' I" Proceed. E. Geog... Soc. London (18n) xv, pp. o,2_02,. 



