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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 10] : [1918 
XXXIV.—CHARLES OGILVIE FARQUHARSON AND 
HIS WORK IN WEST AFRICA. 
It is with the deepest regret that his friends at Kew have 
learned that the name of Mr. C. O. Farquharson, Mycologist, 
Southern Nigeria, whose appointment was recorded in Kew 
Bulletin, 1911, p. 377, occurs in the list of passengers missing 
as the result of the loss at sea, through collision, of the homeward 
bound ss. “‘ Burutu ’”’ on the night of 3rd October. 
The keen enthusiasm brought to bear by Mr. Farquharson on 
his work, the sound judgment with which he confronted its 
problems, and the excellence of the results he had already 
achieved, afforded those interested in the future of West African 
Agriculture reason to expect for him a useful and distinguished 
career. We regret the tragic frustration of these hopes an 
lament the loss of a highly gifted and singularly attractive 
personality. 
The following letter to the Assistant Director, dated 23rd 
by its despatch by a later mail. 
The letter is unlike any of the other letters sent by Mr. 
Farquharson from time to time to Kew, and is a remarkably 
him to believe best for such work are all fully discussed. The 
fully his results and views. i 
(106.) Wt. 196—794. 1,125. 12/18 J.T. & S., Ltd. G.14. Sch. 12. 
