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Clai'de Keith Bancbopt. — With great regret we have to record 

 the death, of Mr. C. K. Bancroft, ALA., JJ'.L.S., who recently 

 resigned the position of Assistant-Director and Uoverninent 

 Botanist, British Guiana, owing* to ill-health. Mr. Bancroft 

 had been unwell for some time, but had made a good recovery 

 in Canada, where he had gone to recuperate, when he contracted 

 influenza, followed by pneumonia, and died at Toronto on 

 January 11th. 



Mr. Bancroft received his early scientific education at 

 Harrison College, Barbados, and in 1905 he won the Barbados 

 Scholarship in natural science [see Agric. News, iv., p. 312), and 

 was the first to win a natural science scholarship in the Y\ est 

 Indies. Until Sir Daniel Morris was appointed Imperial Com- 

 missioner, the Barbados Scholarship was only awarded for pro- 

 ficiency in mathematics or classics. From Harrison College he 

 proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, and in due course was 

 elected to a major scholarship at the College, and later was 

 awarded 1st Class Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 

 1908, After taking the B.A. degree he devoted his attention 

 to botany, and more particularly to mycology and plant path- 

 ology, and spent some time working at plant diseases in the 

 Jodrell Laboratory. 



In 1910 he was appointed Assistant Mycologist in the Feder- 

 ated Malay States (K.B., 1910, p. 253), where he did much 

 useful work, in recognition of which he was appointed, three 

 years later, Assistant Director and Government Botanist, British 

 Guiana (K.B., 1913, p. 91). Through his untimely death 

 agricultural science has lost a man of good promise, who can 

 ill be spared at the present time. 



Additions to Gardens.— Exchanges were difficult owing to the 

 war, as in previous years. Consignments of plants and seeds 

 were lost at sea or were so long on the way as to have been 

 injured beyond recovery. Over 200 entries were made of plants, 

 &c, received, most of these being from 

 most noteworthy were the following: — 



Botanic Gardens and other institutions : 



sources. The 



Arnold Arboretum. — Seeds of trees and shrubs. 

 Dominica Botanic Garden. — Tubers of various species of 

 Dioscorea, Alocasia, &c. 



Jamaica Botanic Gardens. — Seeds of Portbindia. 



Washington, U.S.A., Dept. of Agriculture, — Seeds, various 



trees, and shrubs. 



Giza, Ministry of Agriculture. — Seeds of Feijoa Sellowiana. 

 Nairobi, Forest Dept. — Seeds of Delphinium candidum. 

 Pretoria, Dept. of Agriculture. — Eucomis sp., various seeds. 

 Khartoum, Palace Gardens. — Seeds of Hyoscyamus muticus. 



Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden. — Seeds of Pro teas, &c 

 Angola Botanic Garden. — Seeds of Raphia Sese, native and 

 other plants. 



Uganda, Forestry Dept. — Seeds of various native trees. 

 Calcutta Roval Botanic Garden. — Seeds of 

 Indian plants. 



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