associated. He left Kew in May, 1897, to take up the duties 
of Forester at Zomba, British Central Africa, where he remained 
two years and a half. An interval of about a year at home 
was followed by his appointment as Assistant Curator of the 
Botanic Garden, Entebbe, Uganda. Shortly after, he became 
Curator, but in the spring of 1903 Ms health was so unsatisfactory 
that he was invalided home. His malady proved to be the 
terrible "sleeping sickness," a certain, but, in his case, a slow 
death. He battled ni;mi'ully ;h.';uiim rlu> hopeless disease and the 
deplorable weakness engendered by it, and for some months, from 
October, 1903, to April, 1901, was employed as a temporary 
assistant :. h< K ,'li rbarium. Subsequently he joined the 
staff of the Imperial Institute, but in the antomn of 1905 his 
illness necessitated the relinquishment of all work, an! the 
remainder of his life was passed in the hospital, where lie la\ 
prostrate and helpless, and often in a comatose condition, till his 
death on April 6 of the present year, exactly :'. years to the day 
from the time he left his post in Uganda. His funeral took place 
at the Richmond Cemetery on April 10, and was attended by 
several of the permanent staff at Kew and the Imperial Institute. 
Mahon was married, and his widow now resides in Kew. 
The Gardens are indebted to him for liberal contributions of 
seeds, tubers and plants, and to the Herbarium he sent several 
small collections of specimens which included a number of n -w 
species. The following plants, named in compliment to him, 
commemorate his services to svstematic botany : L> /» ■■!'■< Mnlimn, 
Hook, f., But. Mag. t. 7S9h : 'lj»>»i<»'.-t Mahmn. C. If. Wright in 
Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii p -Vh Briiia ux'm Mahom, C. B. 
Clarke in Kew Bull. 190k p. •- , '>1 : JL<i>!-.>. 
in Kew Bull. 190d, p. J Id ; and Li$tn,'hil»$ MalionK K. 
Ma-. t . 8017. A portrait of Mahon appeared in the Crar<hwr.< 
ChrunU-h; U>0.',. ^xxix. p. 2'A and his graphic deseiv 
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1901, xxxv. pp. 117), l:>o. ]•;?. and lS->. and in the ./<w/,W nj the 
Kew Guild, 1898, p. 17, and 1903, p. 145. 
A. J. Jordan.- In a letter to the Director, dated Botanical 
Department, Trinidad, 8th August, 1906, Mr. J. H. Hart has 
written :— « I regret to report that Mr. A. J. Jordan, ot this 
Department, died after a short illness of some six days on 6th 
August last of pernicious remittent fever." 
The late Mr. Jordan before entering Kew, which be did on 
May 9, 1898, had been trained at Ballandean House, 
Perthshire, and at Forbes House, Ham, Surrey. 
<d: entering Kew as cue that he had cherished '< 
Eng solely to learn." "A small man but in elhgent and 
likely " is the expressive comment on his application form. 
In 1899 Mr. Jordan was selected for service «n the W 
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tm» e at tl re, so as to become ponied to 
\V,,i Indian eonditions. «> tret f> know how to manage native 
