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Mr. E. Irwin Lynch. — After a term of close- upon forty years' 

 service as Curator of the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge, Mr. 

 Lynch has recently retired. He entered Kew, as a young 

 gardener, February 11th, 1867 ; was made foreman of the 

 Herbaceous Department in August, 1870, and foreman of the 

 Propagating Department in March, 1871. He left Kew in July, 

 1879, to take up his post at Cambridge. He was made an 

 Associate of the Linnean Society in 1881 ; Yeitch Medallist in 

 1901; Hon. M. A. (Cantab.) and Victoria Medallist in 1906. Apart 

 from his work at Cambridge, his most important service to 

 horticulture probably has been the improvement he effected in 

 Gerberas by selection and hybridization. The race he established 

 is now largely cultivated in trade establishments on the French 

 lliviera. Mr. Lynch is now residing at Torquay. 



Taxotrophis and Balanostreblus. — To the introductory state- 

 ment which precedes the revision by Mr. Hutchinson of these two 

 genera (K.B. 1918, p. 147), should be added the information that 

 the opportunity afforded of examining the material upon which 

 the genus Balanostreblus was originally based by Kurz was the 

 result of an independent investigation by Mr. J. S. Gamble of 

 the relationship between these two genera. This investigation 

 was undertaken at the suggestion of the late Mr. J. II. Lace, at 

 whose instance the material of Balanostreblus, Kurz, including 

 that of the plant to which, as the notes published in 1918 show, 

 that au thor's name must now be restricted, appears to have been 

 dispatched to Mr. Gamble. 



Peace Commemoration Trees at Kew. — In the autumn of 



1917 some seeds of common oak and of horse-chestnut were 

 received at Kew which had been collected on the battlefields of 

 Verdun. They had been sent by the Mayor of that city to the 

 London and North Western Railway, whose officials forwarded a 

 few of each kind to Kew. The seeds were sown and twenty-one 

 oaks and eight horse-chestnuts were raised from them. 



In view of their interesting origin these trees appeared very 

 appropriate to plant as memorial trees. Accordingly three of 

 them, two oaks and one chestnut, which had been established in 

 pots for the purpose, were planted on Peace Day, July 19th, 1919 



the day of the Great Yictory Procession in London. Two of 

 them are on the southern slope of the hill which is crowned by 

 the Temple of Aeolus, the other is between No. I. Museum and 

 the Temple of Arethusa. Considering the interest with which 

 these trees are likely to be regarded by future generations, when 

 the Great War has receded into the dim past, it seems desirable 

 to put on record the time and place of their planting. 



By desire of His Majesty the Kingr, two of these oaks and 

 two of the chestnuts were planted at Windsor on the same day. 

 En the public parks at Heading, under the auspices of Messrs. 

 Sutton, two oaks were also planted. A chestnut was sent to 

 Keswick for the same purpose. 



