William JAMES FARRER.— Sincere regret will he expressed not 
only l.y those to whom he was personally known, but also by all 
in the important problems connected with the improve- 
ment of wheat, on learning of the Midd.-t 
heart disease, of Mr. William James Farrer, of Lambrigg, N.S.W. 
Farrer was born near Kendal in Westmorland in 1845, and was 
Hospital (Bluecoat School). He afterwards 
entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where lie graduated in 
1868, being placed among the Wranglers in the Mathematical 
Tripos. 
On account of ill-health he sailed for Australia about 1870/ and 
-1 as a surveyor under the Lands Department of New 
South Wales. 
In 1886 he resigned his connection with the Survey Office and 
'" v " ; ' l ' 1 ll i i . 1UM ' 11 r " the systematic improvement of wheat by 
■ys keeping in view two primary 
" !lJ ' "J""* 1 " ■■ ' at the 
ng standard. The success achieved in this 
a now common knowledge, and it is highly probable 
that m the near future wheat will be profitably grown over 
ch up to the present have been 
-:^l«'iv, m,>,Ht r trntonaceountof drought or the , , 
, ,' ; ' H,s N V; n \V :, \ als ' !l " u appreciated outside Australia. A 
•"'• Fin-tor of Agriculture in the United 
"*" ll b India, paid a visit to Australia to 
: :"-! I'.v Fanvr. with the object of insti.n- 
: India. Fanvf-s'work was also 
■ ;;tl "d m the United States. 
\[ i r ' 1 .!. S | :'V\'a" 1 ' W;,> ,n -.-" 1 ^ Wheat Experimentalist by the 
time of his death. " " UFe ' a P ° St wnicu lie nllfl11 ro the 
Ireland and Scotland.-The Curator of the Garden, 
I, which extended from June 18 
l nu 'P° se of seeing some of the more notable 
rson's report on this visit, which 
„ n ^^ZV^: M *> rofitaWe > is published in the 
" tli 1 ": ^mihu-' !>h^\ °J the Garden > Mr. Bean, visited Scotland 
rfaitwaa L906. This 
report wdl *wJiXt*^ t »$^ "«** Mr ' Bean ' 8 
Elliottia 
regretful. - peculiar, and to botanists a 
in a Vu f 6 plants that have become or 
these itv. tia racemosa is one of 
KlU.Kt— in honour ,, by Stephen 
Ih " Savannah River in S r • ge T nus 1S named-on the banks of 
twice on th "was afterwards found again 
me river. But the only site on which 
