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generic characters, and their limits in the whole domain of 

 flowering plants. This was a work of great labour and 

 research. A new and thoroughly reliable determination of 

 everj'thing connected w'ith the groups into which species 

 are arranged, and their geographical distribution, was what 

 was undertaken, and its results are given in a condensed 

 Latin form in the Genera Plantarum, in three volumes, 

 completed in 1883. Year by 3'ear the mighty work pro- 

 gressed, Mr Bentham taking the larger share, but at last, 

 at the age of eighty-three, Mr Bentham, with almost 

 undiminished vigour, saw his work completed, a work which 

 is likely to fix the main lines of systematic botany and 

 flowering plant^s for generations. Of Mr Bentham's long 

 presidency of the Linnean Society, of his masterly ad- 

 dresses and memoirs on philosophic botany, of his well 

 known and most useful Handbook of the British Flora, 

 as well as of his many excellent personal qualities, I have 

 not time to speak. His strength gradually failed, when 

 his life work was done, and he died literally of old age. 

 His name will rank with the most famous botanists, as 

 Linnaeus and Jassieu. 



Henrich Robert Goeppert, M.D., Director of the 

 Botanic Garden, and Professor in the University of 

 Breslau, one of the earliest writers on Fossil Botany, 

 aged 85 years. 



John Ballaxtine, Birkmere, Windermere, formerly 

 a nurseryman near Dalkeith, on the 23rd June last. 



G. H. Millar, F.R.S.E., 5 Palmerston Place, on 15th 

 October last. He was also a member of the Royal Society, 

 and for some j'ears a member of the Council of the 

 Botanical Society. 



Rev. George Macfarlane, Coldingham, Berwick, was 

 an associate of this Society. He contributed numerous 

 specimens to the Herbarium, and in the forthcoming 

 volume of the Transactions will appear his list of the 

 plants in the neighbourhood of Coldingham. He was an 

 enthusiastic botanist, and a great friend of the late Professor 

 Balfour. 



