Che Presidents of the 
Liincolnshire TDaturalists’ Clnion. 
GEORGE MAY LOWE, M.D., F.R.C.P., 
Member of the Réntgen Society, the Botanical Society, Edinburgh, 
the Royal Microscopical Society, the British Meteorl. & Balnl. Society, 
etc. 
AR bee in life the subject of this short memoir was a pupil 
| of the late Dr. John Lowe, of King’s Lynn, and received 
| from him a strict training in scientific methods of 
>\ research, especially in Botany and Zoology. Dr. John 
Lowe, who was the author of ‘“‘ The Yew Trees of England and 
. Ireland,” and of several pamphlets on scientific subjects, was 
also Curator of the Lynn Museum, which contains an extensive 
collection of birds presented by the late Lord Derby, as well as 
ba complete herbarium of Norfolk plants, and it became part of 
the duties of his pupil to arrange and catalogue the specimens. 
In 1862 he went to Edinburgh, and for some time resided with 
Professor J. H. Balfour, the late Regius Keeper of the Royal 
_ Botanical Gardens, and Dean of the Medical Faculty in the 
University. Here he was privileged to work in the Stove 
houses and made observations on the ‘elongation of pollen 
tubes in the stigma of Gloxinia,’”’ &c.; he became a Fellow of the 
Botanical Society and communicated several papers to the 
Transactions, especially on the “effects of forests on climate.” 
Dr. Lowe graduated (with honours) in 1866, and was a medallist 
in Chemistry, Pathology and Diseases of Women. After acting 
as Resident Surgeon, and later as Resident Physician, in the 
prove Infirmary of Edinburgh, Dr. Lowe joined the firm of 
_Messrs. Harvey and Lowe, Surgeons, in Lincoln in 1866, and 
_ continued in active practice until 1903, when, in consequence of 
eiine health, he removed to Ryde in the Isle of Wight, where, 
