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if the projected railway be made, will only take a few hours, as 

 the distance between the two nlaeea is nnlv 900 miloa Mi. tw^ 



first took up the study of Botany in 1880. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1882, and between 1880 and 

 190o sent to Kew upwards of 7,000 numbered specimens of plants. 

 His collections were made chiefly in the three central and elevated 

 provinces of Imerina and Betsileoland and Tanaia, and as this 

 region had been but little explored previously and fully three- 

 quarters of the plants of Madagascar are endemic, he discovered 

 a thousand new species, which were described by Mr. J. Gilbert 

 Baker principally in the XXth and XXVth vols, of the Journal 



Ml . « . ., ----*- When at home on furlough in 1888 



thl'w C0 f^ Uted t0 ,t he Linnean Societ 3 r a valuable P^er on 

 In lifZ 0t B ^ tany m , Mad «^car (Joum. Linn. Soc., vol xxv., 



pp. ^41-^1)4, with a map). 



w£S£E& ii UTm8 ? *£*»*&■ at ^e, under an eminent 

 exnert h l^f i V ecnh * ni ™ ° f r0ck 8truct «^ ^ became an 

 vSt to jwl h I f m 7^^ions. During Mr. Baron's last 

 ^olo^vte^ .1^ at th % G ^^\ Society on Madagascar 

 geology led to his election as a Fe low of that Societv A further 



^ya?Stv^r?SFt f0 ^ ,he Btudy ° f rock structure from the 



g^oli^l ^t ^ all a JT? ° f the *•«**» grant for 



Ld fh^vTce Prt*Piii g K d m / dal from the Marseilles Exposition 

 proofs of he ^ amZS P ° f , *£? Acad6mie Malgache are also 

 French officii P r2 ° n °! hlS 8cientific knowledge by the 



•nT&Shft wasTCd^aSi °* ^^ *°° l ™> ^ 

 refused to leave tni«^f« ? a PPomtments, but always 



Government Reputed Xt? ?* ^ *P 8ervice under tlie 

 attack of blackwater ^fever weaLn iT*" &1 feVer a,ld tinall >" an 

 to England for the last ti™ k f h ] 8 ^^and he returned 



was playing with h 5s chilC on uTi ° *? £ r6Sent *"* He 

 an hour of his death S f an(ls at Morecambe within 



Wednesday, October i"*k !. f ? nwd * ook Place at Kendal on 



16th, and 



relatives and representati re, nf^ Waa largelv attended bx 



P esentatives of various missionary societies. 



his 



William 



J. G. B. 



age of 81, was born at Staple*™™ i?^" 1 ? n October 18th at the 

 the Royal Gardens in 1840 whence S K 0merset > ** W26. He entered 

 and was head gardener to a £tLtt proce , edefl *> Peru in 1850 



appointed a Prof essor at GaudL?npn^ gent T leman ; later he was 

 Plants to the Herbarium ?rZ TltfSf^™*- He contributed 



dttfi a f 5 a !f R—rved. °One of t ^1 «* 8evera > <>' ^is 



Otip nf £* , dna several of his 



Kit h'^ nt ' Wbich - b <*>« Cdied hi f'"- * 5432 > a "d '"bera 



Flora Capensis. 



«<• Soath Ataow coloniei Since U^tMrV" b £ taM ot 



notlce ln 'he Xe» Bulletin 



