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all the plates and [ found him the best possible senior partner 
eeananaie He had an amusing ngs of settling everything by telegram 
—often of surprising le " 
The partnership over ah Annals worked with absolute 
smoothness, and the long series of volumes is a sufficient monu- 
ment to the sagacity and business capacity of Balfour’s leading 
share in the venture. 
His other signal service to Botanical Science dating from. his 
Professorship at Oxford was the editing and translating of the 
standard German Textbooks in various branches of Botany, the 
publication of which was undertaken by the Clarendon Press. 
This valuable enterprise was due in great measure to the initiative 
of Prof. Rolleston in the first instance, and the translation of 
Sach’s textbook of Botany by A. W. Bennett and Sir W. T. 
Thiselton-Dyer in 1875 was the first fruits of Prof. Rolleston’s 
suggestion. Bayley Balfour took up the task of continuing the 
work with characteristic energy and was not only responsible as 
General Editor for the translation of the other standard works 
which were published by the Oxford Press but also himself 
translated Goebel’s great work on Organography (vol. i, 1900, 
vol. ii, 1905), and with Prof. P. Groom revised and edited the 
translation of Schimper’s Plant Geography (1903), and he trans- 
lated, also with Prof. Groom, Warming’s “ Oecology of Plants ”’ 
published by the Clarendon Press in 1909 
In 1888 he left Oxford to succeed the late Professor Alexander 
Dickson as Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 
and was appointed King’s Botanist for Scotland and Regius. 
Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden and, as did his father before 
him, held these posts for a period of thirty-four years until he 
retired in March last. 
These thirty-four years at Edinburgh were indeed remarkable 
whether one regards his work as a great teacher of Botany or as 
a great Director of a Botanic Garden. As a teacher for a genera- 
tion he occupied the foremost place among British botanists. 
His personal charm arrested the attention of his students and the 
lucidity and depth of his lectures ensured the maintenance of 
their interest and attention. Being, as he was, a penetrating 
observer of Natural History and a remarkably able experi- 
mental biologist, he added to all that was valuable in his 
earlier training the newer knowledge as it was developing 
and to which he himself was one of the most potent contributors. 
His success as a teacher was perhaps due to that wide vision 
of his which he was able to impart to his students, and which. 
enabled them to realise that botanical investigation and research, 
whether in the field, the class room or the herbarium, were a 
means to an end rather than the ends themselves. 
And it was not only to the purely botanical students that he 
thus gave of his best from his vast storehouse of learning and 
experience ‘“‘ matured by time and ripened by wisdom,” but to 
that great army of medical students who were stimulated, 
