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formation of the Botanical Society of South Africa in J une, 1913. 
But not botany alone laments his premature death; the cause of 
science in South Africa has lost, in Pearson, a wise and devoted 
. “* His death,’’ says a South African writer, ‘* occasions 
a fink which it is practically impossible to fill.”’ 
Pearson’s outstanding worth came to be recognised in this 
country as it already was at the Cape; in 1916, he was elected 
a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his friends at Kew looked 
forward with confidence to the continuance of a career already 
distinguished by untiring paral controlled enthusiasm, 
singular directness and unfailing ta 
Pearson, in 1902, married Miss K. “Pratt, in whose bereavement 
those at Kew w, by. whom her late husband was held in such 
affectionate regard, feel a personal share. is remains were 
laid to rest on “the afternoon of Saturday, 4th November, 1916, 
in a spot within the garden that he loved, facing the slope devoted 
to his Cycad plantation. The funeral service was held in the 
Protea Church, near the Kirstenbosch Estate, and the affec- 
tionate regard in which Pearson was held by all associated with 
the South African College was marked by the cancelling of all 
ey engagements for that da ; 
The list of contributions héte appended, conveys some im- 
pression of the varied interests and activities of our old colleague 
wlfose memory will endure in the great institution at Kirsten- 
cna <— establishment and welfare of which he had so much 
at 
List of Publications by the late Prof. H. H. W. Pearson, 
Anatomy. of the Seedling of Bowenva spectabilis, Hook. f. 
(Ann. Bot. xii. 1898, pp. 475-490, tt. 27-28.) . 
een Roots of ok a spectabilis, Hook. f. (Rep. 
Brit. Assoc, Adv. Sci. 1898, p. 1066. “i 
Balany of the Ceylon Patanast Part I. (Journ. Linn. - 
vol. xxxiv. 1899, pp. 300-365, with map).—Part are fi e 
Parkin. & H. H. W. PB. (Le. vol. xxxv. 19083, pp. 430 
1-12). 
S. Hedin’s Reisen in Zentralasien. Die oH Lae 
hisse, bearbeitet von W. Botting Hemsley & 1086s he 
(Petermann’ s Geogr. Mitteil. Tepankungeb. XXViil. » Pp. , 
d12-375, 
; Sten of Clerodendron Curtisii (Kew Bulletin, 1901, p. 
On a Small Collection of Dried Plants obtained by ha ack 
Conway in the Bolivian Andes, by W. Botting Hem 78-90, 
mH. W. P. (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxv. 1901, pp- 
With ma 
The Flora of Tibet or High Asia; being a pare Account 
of the various Tibetan Botanical ‘Collections in 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew , together with a 
what is known of the Flora of Tibet, by W. . oe ey. 1901, 
assisted by H. W. P. (Journ: Linn. Soc. vo 
pp. 124-265, with map.) 
