high and 4 feet 5 inches in girth ; the still rarer A. religiosa, from 
Mexico (the only specimen I saw in Scotland), 40 feet high ; 
Picea polita, 20 feet high, well-furnished and well-formed ; and 
Ha japonica, 50 feet high, with the unusual girth of 
6 feet 3 inches. 
The Holm Oak is not so fine individually here as it is at Kew, 
but a grove of forty of them gave one an idea of the " Ilex " 
woods of Southern Europe. I have already alluded to the Rhodo- 
dendrons, but all the ericaceous plants are remarkably well-<iro\vn. 
Pin-is Hurihinifht was 10 feet high, the scarce P. marinnu, 7 feet 
high and through, Kahnia angustifolia, 6 feet high, Cassandras, 
4 feet high, and many more equally notable. 
XLV.-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
C. B. Clarke.— Mr. Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.R.S., eldest 
son of the late Mr. Turner Poulter Clarke, J. P., of Andover, Hamp- 
shire, who died on August 25th, 1906, had been for many years 
intimately associated with the Herbarium at Kew, where he was 
employed, as an Indian officer on special duty, from March, 1879, 
till April, 1883, in assisting Sir Joseph Hooker to prepare the 
Flora of British India. When he retired from the service of 
the Government of India, in June, 1887, he settled at Kew in 
order to be near the II- lie has been a volunteer 
for the past 19 years, associating himself in the most whole- 
hearted manner with the interests of the establishment and the 
furtherance of its work. By the members of the staff, whom he 
treated as friends and colleagues, and by visitors to the Herbarium 
of every nafcio ill be felt as a personal loss. The 
extreme un- ling kindness with which, some- 
times it is to be feared at the expense of his own special studies, 
he placed at the disposal of other workers his extensive knowledge 
of the flora of India generally and his minute acquaintance 
with certain natural families, particularly the Cyperacvae, with 
regard to which he was the recognised authority, can never be 
forgotten. 
After having been at King's College School, London, Mr. Clarke 
proceeded to Cambridge, where he was a member of Trinity 
College and afterwards of Queen's. When he graduated in 1856 
he was brad r ; in the following year he was 
elected a Fellow of Queen's College. In 1858 he was called to 
the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and appointed Mathematical Lecturer of 
his college. He was thus occupied till 1865, and in 1866 he left 
for India to join the Educational Department in Bengal, where he 
served as one of the staff of the Presidency College, Cal 
afterwards as an Inspector of Schools. From 1869 till 1871 he 
acted as Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at Shibpar, 
near Calcutta, afterwards reverting to the Educational I' 
to the first grade in which he was promoted in March, 1876. In 
1877 he returned to Europe on two years' furlough. In 1879, as 
already stated, he was placed, when his leave expired, on special 
duty in England. Returning to India in 1883, he was, in 
