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London in 1871. It was his intention to devote such time as he 
could spare to the elucidation of the vegetable products of the 
Niger Protectorate. e wrote an excellent account of his 
explorations in Australia under the title of Spinifex and Sand ; 
and his name is commemorated in botany by Dvicrasty ylts 
Carnegiet, Hemsl., Hooker's Icones Plantarum, plate 2 2982. This 
plant, which “ has a perfume resembling lavender,” was found on 
the steep sides of sand-ridges over an area covered by two or 
three days’ travel. 
Dr. Peter Cormack se gant oh sa death, ae pneumonia, of 
this old correspondent of Kew is announced by the Nata/ 
Mercury as having ae place af his sade in Durban, Natal, 
on November 30th, 1900. The Colony has lost in him. one o 
its ablest scientific m 
Dr. Sutherland was owl at Latheron, in Caithness, Scotland, in 
1822, His parents were poor, and they emigrated to Nova Scotia 
when he was eight years of age. After afew years they retartied 
to their native village in Scotland, where the eter was. 
8 0 hen 
It was whilst still a student that he embarked on his 
first scientific mission; this was to the West Coast of a to 
report upon guano, at that time coming into use as a manure. 
Afterwards, between 1845 and 1847, he made two voyages ™ the 
Arctic regions, and then settled down to practice as a medical 
man in Tyrie, New Pitsligo, and Aberdeen until 1850, when he 
joined Captain Penny’s expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. 
During this voyage he made a oe of — and — which 
he sent to Sir William Hooker in 1851, and thus commenced 
his esate beeen oe with Kew. oc 1852 a5 again went to the 
retic regions, under Captain Inglefield, on a fresh expedition in 
des: for Sir John Fran klin. This vo resulted in his sending 
of dried plants from higher latitudes : besides which he also made 
geological and zoological collections. At this period he ha da 
desire to enter Government service, but as his age prohibited this, 
on the recommendation of influential friends, he went to Natal, 
where he arrived in the autumn of 1853. Here his ability and 
merits were soon recognised, for after a few months’ residence he 
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received a share of his attantion. and he was one of the fo eda 
of the Natal Botanic Society. For many years he corresponded 
with Kew, and contributed a very large number of dried and 
living plants from Natal, Pondoland, and the Transvaal. _ Among 
