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The President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has 
been pleased to appoint Dr. O. Srapr, F.R.S., F.L.S., to succeed 
Mr. Hemsley as Keeper of the Herbarium and Library, and to 
appoint Mr. C. H. Wrieut, A.L.S., to perform the daties hitherto 
carried out by Dr. Stapf. 
ALEXANDER Wuytn, whose death at the age of 75 occurred at 
High Barnet on 2\st December, 1908, was a younger son of the 
Rev. A. Whyte, M.A., minister of F ettercairn, Kincardineshire. 
Mr. Whyte was born at Fettercairn on 5th March, 183-4, and was 
educated at the Parish School there, under Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 
Inglis and, after 1846, under the Rev. J. Law. He entered the 
University of Aberdeen in 1850, reading during vacations with 
r. (now Dr.) Cameron, During his university career he proved 
the classes of Natural History and Botany. He left for the 
West Indies, where his family had interests, before completing his 
university curriculum, and for the same reason subsequently went 
to Ceylon, During his residence in that island he continued to take 
an active interest in natural science, more particularly in Zoology, 
making considerable collections and latterly embarking in business 
in Colombo as a Naturalist, He was elected a Fellow of the 
1891, at the Ho of 57, he became attached to the staff which 
r. (now Sir) H. H. Johnston on his departure to 
rica, 
In 1894 he became a F ellow of the Linnean Society and in the 
same year was made an Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society 
“ for Services rendered to the Society,” which on 16th J une, 1897, 
cknowledgment of valuable 
services rendered to Zoological Science by his researches in British 
Central Africa.” 
In 1898 Whyte’s services were transferred to the Uganda 
Administration, and in 1902 he we i 
ritis ast Africa, 
1903, but in 1904-5 he made Journeys in Liberia on behalf of a 
i 9p which had been granted concessions by the Government 
of that State. 
Endowed with a robust constitution, good powers of observation 
and a capacity for taking pains, Whyte was an excellent collector, 
and his specimens illustrating the Botan 
is commemorated in Widdringtonia Wh, tet, the Mlanji Cypress 
notices of which hay Ser ee 4 gs! thas ues, 
199; 1896, p. 916), PPCred im this work (X.B. 1895, pp. 158, 
ae - PR rates camer 
Visitors during 1908—The number of persons who visited the 
ardens during the year 1908 was 2,710,290. 
1907 Prisha Shew a decrease of 252,494 visitors over the year 
en the number of visitors was the largest yet recorded. 
