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strator in Botany under Professor Geddes at University 
College, Dundee. Here he had as a colleague Dr. A. J. 
Herbertson of Oxford, and here also he met Dr. Bruce, the 
Arctic traveller. Through his intimacy with Dr. Herbertson 
he became greatly interested in meteorology. I am indebted 
to Dr. Herbertson for the following interesting particulars :— 
“In late years Mr. Waite collaborated with me in studies 
of the rainfall of Australia and of Africa. He had completed 
tables, which I had begun, of the rainfall of both continents 
up to 1900, and in the case of Africa even later, as far as the 
data permitted. The map of Africa, based on this work, 
was shown at the British Association meeting in South 
Africa, but it was not published, as we could not get data for 
the Congo Independent State, although we repeatedly wrote 
for it. The Australian rainfall results have not been 
published, because some of the data had not come to hand at 
the time of his death. I hope to publish the tables, maps, 
and an account of them in 1909 in our joint names, Mr. 
Waite was particularly good at tabulating statistics and in 
discovering irregularities which necessitated more minute 
inquiry. It will be a very great loss not to have his know- 
ledge to guide me in dealing with the tables he left. What 
impressed all who were fortunate enough to gain Mr. Waite’s 
friendship was his lovableness, his consideration for others, 
and his wonderful pluck and patience in doing steady work 
in spite of his physical weakness. For months his medical 
adviser would not allow him to do any work at all. But as 
soon as he received permission to work, even if it were only 
for an hour a day, he turned to his task again. He was a 
wonderful example of what can be done by palhener and 
perseverance under very adverse circumstances.” 
To one of his most intimate friends, Mr. F. J. Wardale of 
Shrewton, Wilts, I am indebted for the following :— 
“Mr. Waite largely assisted Dr. Herbertson in the pre- 
liminary investigations for his great work on ‘The Distri- 
bution of the Rainfall over the Land,’ as well as in his 
preparation of notes for his lectures on his visit to South 
Africa: and Dr. Buchan in much of the work for the 
meteorological volume of Bartholomew’s ‘ Physical Atlas.’ 
He also investigated the relations between the Sun-spot 
Periods and the rise and fall of the Nile, and wrote a 
