IN MEMORIAM—PROFESSOR THOMAS KING. 3 
Having accordingly obtained an appointment in the school of 
Messrs. Goldfinch and Bluhm at Valparaiso, Chile (in which 
country his brother John had already taken up his abode), he 
sailed from Liverpool on 21st July, 1864, in the ‘Adam Sedgwick.” 
Here, under the warm rays of a South American sun, his health 
rapidly improved ; while he found pleasant occupation for periods 
of leisure in studying the fauna and flora of Chile, and in forming 
collections of birds, insects, shells, and plants—an occupation 
which must have afforded him a source of never-failing pleasure. 
But this bright and happy period was destined to be darkened 
with sorrow through the death of his elder brother, James, which 
took place at Carrizal on 5th February, 1870. 
While engaged in his favourite pursuits, Mr. King made tke 
acquaintance of several eminent South American botanists, in- 
cluding Dr. R. A. Philippi, Professor of Natural History in the 
' University of Chile, Santiago, of whom he has given the following 
reminiscences :—‘‘ He was well-known in Europe before coming 
to Chile, having, I understand, made his mark by his writings on 
the shells of the Mediterranean. I was introduced to him in the 
Santiago Museum, and found him a little, cheery, active German, 
about sixty years of age. I was struck by the facility with which 
he could name the native plants. I had been slowly puzzling 
them out, but he could name them as fast as we could name ash 
or beech or elm. 
“Shortly after the bombardment,* my brother went north to 
the Desert of Atacama, to take charge of a mineral railway; and 
in my visits to him I was so fortunate as to find several plants 
new to science, as well as other species seldom seen in the south. 
These I sent to Santiago, and Philippi was so good as to name 
some of the new species after me. One of my finds I was greatly 
pleased about. In riding over the sands with my brother, on a 
bright morning before breakfast, I noticed a plant unfamiliar to 
me. Dismounting, I gathered a prostrate, wiry, fragrant 
leguminous under-shrub, Now, we had just got a new President 
—Sefior Errazuriz—and the Doctor named it in his honour 
Errazurizia glandulifera, Ph.” 

* The bombardment of Valparaiso, by Spain, under Admiral Pareja, 
which took place in April, 1866, 
