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important matters in each problem that presented itself 
to him, as well as in working out solutions to these prob- 
lems, so as to make each addition to his knowledge a real 
gain” (C., p. 139). 
Prof. Trail also told me that Farquharson was “ one 
of the best among the many who have passed through 
our University; and I felt,” he wrote, “no doubt as to 
the quality of the work that was done by him, for he was 
thorough and forgetful of self in whatever he undertook, 
and the love of natural science was inborn in him, along 
with exceptional ability.” 
For all his hard work and keen interest in many studies 
Farquharson entered with avidity into the literary and 
social life of the University, taking an active part in the 
Debating Society, the Sociological Society, of which he was 
at one time President, and editing and writing for “ Alma 
Mater.” His friends too “recall many long evenings 
in his company in bygone days, when a few kindred spirits 
were wont to meet to settle all the problems of the 
universe ”’ (B.). 
In 1911 Farquharson was eee Mycologist to the 
Agricultural Department of Southern Nigeria—happy in 
finding a career in the one subject which attracted him 
most. Before starting, early in 1912, to West Africa, he 
spent some months of specialised study in London, chiefly 
at Kew. It was probably at this time that he came under 
the second great influence which affected his whole out- 
look. How much he owed to the late George Massee is 
best expressed in the words of one of his last letters. 
‘“T ought to add,” he wrote to Dr. A. W. Hill, F.R.S., 
on August 23, 1918, ‘‘ that George Massee’s economic- 
mycological outlook has influenced most things I have 
done, perhaps not as published, but in the intimate expres- 
sion of his views that he used to give at Kew. Again and 
again I have wished he were alive. Kew wasn’t the same 
place to me last time I was home” (D., p. 354). 
The Agricultural Department, which, except for his visits 
to Agege and other places in Southern Nigeria and his 
leaves in the Old Country, was to be Farquharson’s home 
for the rest of his life, is situated at Moor Plantation (480— 
580 ft.), about 4 miles west of Ibadan, and here the great 
majority of the observations recorded in this memoir were 
made. His first researches, upon the Mycetozoa, appeared 
in an important paper written in collaboration with Miss 
