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To liis wide knowledge were added great kindness and a singular 

 charm of manner; nowhere can liis loss be more keenly felt or 

 more sincerely mourned than at Kew. 



Sir Artiiuh H. Chi:iich, K.C.V.O., F.R.S.— By the death of 



Sir Arthnr Church, on 31st May, 1915, in his 81st year, Kew has 



known for 



logical 



lost a near neighbour and a most generous friend. 



Though Sir Arthur Church's name is perhaps best kno 

 his researches into the chemistry of pigments and in minera _^ 

 chemistry, he was also an authority on agricultural chemistry, 

 and had a wide knowledge of the chemistry of plants. His 

 interest in the agricultural and botanical side of his subject was 

 stimulated, no doubt, by his appointment to the chair of 

 Chemistry at the Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester, in 

 1863, where Sir William Thiselton-Dyer subsequently became 

 his colleague as Professor of Xatuial History. 



The friendship then begun was strengthened when Sir William 

 took up his duties at the Royal Gardens, for Sir Arthur Church 

 came to reside in the neighbourhood on his appointment to the 

 Professorship of Chemistry at the Royal Academy m 18 < 9, and 

 his relations with Kew from that time onwards have been oi the 

 most friendly and cordial nature. It is not in our province to 

 speak of his chemical work, which was always ingenious ana 

 refined, but it must not be forgotten that it led him to devise 

 methods for the preservation of such national treasures as tlie 

 stonework of Westminster Abbey and the ceilmg of breenwicJi 



Hospital. ■ r +1 p 



Among his contributions to agriculture and hotanj-, the moi e 



important are the English edition of Johnsons H^' H'^f^ 

 Grow" (with Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer), - The Pood Grams 

 of India," and his memoirs on vegetable albinism, colem or 

 erythrophyll and aluminium in vascular cryptogams. ^^ J}^ 

 devised aii ingenious method of measuring the trnnspiiation 



current bv means of Lithia. ^ , TT^v-hnrlnni 



He was an ndmirable artist, and tl.ere are at the He baxmm 



some beautiful illustrations of British lerns by his hand, in 



<^onnectioTi with his charming book on J?P']f««^«%"";£"J,^ted 

 ^•ns at great pains to determine accurately the pkiits ^^F^.e^^^^^^^ 

 The Roval Gardens are indebted to Sir Arthur Ch^^^ 4°^^ 



many generous gifts, one of particular ^^ "^V l^ented lasl 

 the beautiful co!our print of^Linnaeus, which he presented last 



year {K.B., 1914, p. 138) .^^ ^;^ „,i,,,a for 



By many members of the Gaulens ^^^'^'^.^f , „,vu,iegs 



his unobtrLive readiness to belp those m distress and sickness. 



" Though many things be changed. 



And some forgot; 

 Friends lost and friends estranged, 



Porget mc not ! "* 



ROBEI 



loss of 



the 

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Robert Woodward is a greaime^JJM^^ 



The Forget-me-not. Flower Posies. A. H- t^nui 



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