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Once begun, the work, which in its complete form consists of two 
volumes containing eight parts, proceeded without a break. The 
first part was published in 1901, the eighth and concluding part 
appeared in 1908. Cooke applied to the task of its preparation all 
the precision and method characteristic of his official work. Every 
previous statement was subjected by him to careful personal 
verification ; the descriptions and the keys provided are models of 
lucidity and conciseness, and the work, which is a safe guide to the 
identity of the plants of the area with which it deals, has ensured 
for Cooke an honoured place in the roll of Indian botanists. While 
the work was in progress a serious fire completely destroyed the 
Poona Herbarium, and, with much public spirit, Cooke, as he com- 
pleted the various parts of his Flora, despatched to India the 
material on which he had worked to replace the moiety of his 
collection which had been lost through this fire. When the Bombay 
Flora was finished Cooke lent his services as a volunteer to the 
task of assisting Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer in the preparation of 
the great Flora Capensis. He was engaged in this when overtaken 
by the illness whose fatal termination we now deplore 
man of wide interests and of varied and accurate information, 
Cooke nevertheless did not allow himself to deviate from the wor 
which he, for the time being, had in hand. To this capacity for 
steady application to the business immediately before him his 
success in all that he undertook was very largely due. An M.A. 
and a Master of Engineering of his University in ordinary course, 
his attainments were further recognised by his alma mater by the 
conferment of the degree of LL.D. ; his administrative gifts were 
recognised by Government in 1891 when he was created a C.I.I. 
member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Ireland, he was also 
a member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and a 
Fellow of the Géological and the Linnean Societies. 
-_ Kueryphia pinnatifolia, Gay.—Among the hardier small trees and 
shrubs from South America this is decidedly one of the most 
the heaths grow close enough together to shade the soil and keep it 
permanently cool. In this position not one of the Eucryphias has 
