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Mayor Henry ALrrep Cummins, C.M.G., F.L.S., who 
acted as Assistant for India in the Herbarium at Kew during the 
absence of Mr. J. F. Duthie in 1906, has, we understand, been 
appointed Professor of Botany, University College, Cork, 
Mr. C. W. SmuytHe.—We regret to have to record the death 
Botanic station in Sierra Leone (KB, 1904, p. 13), and sub- 
sequently was appointed Agricultural Superintendent. 
He had been deputed to yisit the forests and forestry schools in 
Germany during his present leave, and was about to proceed to the 
continent when he was overtaken by his fatal illness, 
Cisare Cuantre.—In the person of M. Césare Chantre there 
passed away, on August 8th last, at Rocher, near Lamastre, 
Ardéche, France, an old contributor and frequent visitor to the 
Kew Museums. ; 
A native of Lyons, where he was born in 1841, he came to 
London about 43 years ago as representative of a Lyons business 
house, with which he was connected by family ties. Residing at 
Haverstock Hill, and spending his whole days in.the city, he 
managed to combine his love of the country—so much as a near 
London suburb would allow—with his interest in vegetable, animal 
and mineral products, the richness of which can be estimated only 
by visits to London’s extensive docks, or the commercial sale rooms. 
These he constantly attended with a keen eye for anything new to 
commerce, or for any remarkably fine specimens, whether in size or 
quality, Gums, resins, articles of food, medicine, or manufacture, 
all had an interest for him, as products of one or the other of the 
great kingdoms of nature. ee 
It follows, therefore, that when he left London, in 1883, he had 
got together a large and carefully selected series of ees 
portions of which he freely gave, at different times, to t ew 
museums, when he found during his frequent visits, mostly on 
Saturday afternoons, that the specimens in that collection ae 
not quite so good as his own, or perchance that -- oe ter 
Specimens which were not represented at all at pte ‘ ~ ~ 
was not only a good economic botanist, but he loved a = A - 
the open country with vasculum and butterfly net, a ig ce 
accompanied by his old friends, the late Mr. George Nic ; _ 
and the writer of this notice. It is recorded that on one of 
rambles near Harrow he discovered the rare British plant pi 
Botrys, which had been previously known to occur only near 
ox Hill, 
He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society “ the or May, 
1878, and his letter of resignation, owing to heel eavying London, 
was laid before the Council on the 7th June, 1883. 
