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cognate practical studies has been due to the fact that the results 
obtained by those working under him have depended directly on 
scientific investigation. The mass of administrative work involved 
in the supervision of so many and such varied activities, in place of 
impeding, appeared only to whet his own interest in scientific 
botanical studies, the results of which found a medium for publica- 
a corresponding member of the French and of the Bavarian 
Academies, and a foreign member of the Royal and Linnean 
Societies of London, and the recipient in 1907 of the Linnean 
edal of the last-named body. 
Towards the end of his career in Java his work of organization 
was crowned by the establishment in that island of a scientific 
Department of Agriculture, whereof the establishment at Buiten- 
zorg forms an integral part, of which Treub was appointed the 
chief. While prosecuting the preliminary enquiries necessary in 
connection with this important change, Treub paid a visit to Manila 
where he contracted an illness the effects of which he did not 
speedily shake off. Shortly after his return to Buitenzorg he was 
compelled to take a somewhat prolonged leave of absence, which he 
spent in the mountains of Java. His health became sufficiently 
restored to admit of his resuming his duties, but about a year ago 
it again became so indifferent as to necessitate his resignation of 
office. He had intended to settle on the Riviera, but the state of 
his health necessitated his wintering in Egypt, and he did not reach 
Saint Raphaél, where he died, until spring. 
Dr. _THEODORE Cooxr.—A warm friend of Kew and one who 
had gained the sincere regard and affection of the members of the 
staff of the institution, has been lost to us in the person of 
Dr. Theodore Cooke, whose death occurred at his residence, Ports- 
wood House, Kew Gardens Road, on Saturday, November 5, 1910. 
tr, Cooke, who was in his 75th year, was born at Tramore, 
Co. Waterford, in 1836. He was the eldest son of the Rev. J. 
Cooke, M.A., formerly rector of Ardfinan, Co. T ipperary. _Enter- 
ing Trinity College, Dublin, he graduated in 1859, being Hebrew 
Prizeman, first onoursman, and Senior Moderator and Gold 
Medallist in Experimental and Natural Sciences in the University, 
and obtaining special certificates in Mechanics and Experimental 
Physics, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mining and Geology in the 
Engineering School. Destined originally for the profession of civil 
