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mendation of Kew, Horticultural Superintendent in tlie Depart- 

 ment of Science and Agriculture in the Colony of British Guiana. 



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Miss J. J. Claek. 



Kew has sustained a great loss throujjh the 



tintimely death of Miss J. J- Clark, of the Herbarium staff, which 

 occurred on February 2nd, 1914, after a long illness.. 



Miss Clark, who was born on August 25th, 1881, was educated 

 at Southend High School, and afterwards for four years at Univer- 

 sity College, Aberystwith, where she gained the B.Sc, degree of 

 London University with first-class honours. After leaving college, 

 she held the post of science mistress at her old school, and 

 subsequently accepted a post as private secretary to a man of 

 letters. 



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In November, 1909, she was appointed by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Fisheries a Lady Assistant in the Herbarium at Kew after 

 limited competition. During the short time she was a member of 

 the Kew staff Miss Clark proved herself a careful and trustworthy 

 worker, and took an unfailing interest in both the official and 

 social life of the Gardens. In the ^^ Annals of Botany," vol. xxvi. 

 1912, p. 948, she published an interesting note on ^^ Abnormal 



Flowers of Amelanchier spicata. 



Other publications were 



diagnoses of new species, chieflv from Tropical Africa {Kew Bull. 

 1911, pp. 229, 263; 1913, pp. 76-77), and descriptions of plants 

 ^gnved in tlie Botanical Magazine (vols. 138, 139, 1912-13), 



Although it was known that Miss Clark was very seriously ill, 

 her untimely end at the early age of 32 came as a shock to her col- 

 leagues, and she leaves them with a keen sense of the loss of a 

 helpful and cheery personality. To those who knew her best her 

 patience and courage under the trials of failing health will always 

 be a reverent memory. 



E. M. W. 



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Dr. Jacques Huber.— It is with great regret that we have to 

 record the sudden death of Dr. Tacques Huber, Director of the 

 Museum Goeldi, Para, on February 18th, in that city. He went 

 to Para in the year 1895, and was made Director of the Botanical 

 Section of the newly-reorganised State Museum of Natural Science 

 and Ethnography (now Museu Goeldi). Here he laid out the 

 botanic garden and undertook numerous scientific journeys into 

 different parts of Brazil, the results of which added considerably 

 to our knowledge of the Brazilian flora. In addition to his general 

 botanical and geographical studies he had an extensive knowledge 



of Para rubber and its cultivation, and manv of his articles on 

 Hevea and other rubber plants were published in the Bulletin of 

 the Herbier Boissier. In March, 1907, when Dr. Goeldi returned 

 to Europe, Dr. Huber was appointed Director of the Goeldi 

 Museum. 



The Lawrence Orchid Collection.— It is wellknown that the 



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orchid collection of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K-C.V.O., 

 Burford Lodge, Dorking, was very rich in rare and interesting 

 species. Sir Trevor having paid special attention to them for a 



