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X.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
W g Bovell who, we 
Mr, J. R. Bovert.—We learn that Mr. J. R. ve dy 
were informed, was leaving Barbados for British Guiana (A.B. 
1915, p. 411), has not left the colony and retains his post as 
Superintendent of the Local Department of Agriculture. 
Counr Sorms-Laveacn, F.M.R.S., who died on November 24th, 
1915, in his seventy-third year, was a most eminent se 
who had many warm friends in England and was well known * 
‘Kew, which he first visited in the early ‘sixties as a guest 0 
Sir William Hooker. His work on the history of cultivated 
plants brought him into close touch with the work of Kew, an 
1is well-known investigation of the famous fossil, Bennettites 
Gibsonianus, was partly made on material then in the possession 
of the Kew establishment. An illuminated address, signed by 
many of his botanical friends in this country was presented to 
Count Solms in 1912, on his attaining the age of seventy. : 
D. ee 
Sir Cremenrs R. Markuam, K.C.B., F.R.S., geographer and 
explorer, whose death in his eighty-sixth year took place as the 
result of an accident, on 29th J anuary, 1916, was during that 
portion of his public career spent in the service of the Board of 
Control, 1855-8, and the India Office, 1858-75, a regular corres- 
pondent of Kew. This is not the place to speak of his efforts to 
advance geographical knowledge, but his endeavours to promote 
the economic interests of the Empire call for more than passing 
notice, 
One of the consequences of a journey in Peru undertaken by 
Markham in 1852 was to direct his attention to. the problems 
ad as associates Dr, R. p 
be gathered from Spruce’s 
and Andes,”’ posthumously edited by the late Dr. A. R. Wallace, 
9, Pp. 162), and Mr. R. Cross, whose share in the ta 
18 dealt with in a special report published in 1862. The enter — 
agi which was Successful, was dealt with further by Markham 
1 
la, while its incidents and 118 
y summarised by him in a popular work 01 
Peravian Bark << interesting account of the introduction 
vation into British India. The portion kin 
written Chinchona—that no 
w forms the basis he industry 1 
the Kast was not suteitnesd orms the basis of the inc 
d 
Sir Clements insistec ought to be. 
by Markham or Spruce or Cross, but : 
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