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monograph on the subject. But perhaps his most important 
work in this science was done for Dr. H. R. Mill in the 
preparation of his Annual Rainfall Maps of the British Isles 
from 1893 to 1905. This work, involving the laying down on 
the map on a scale of 20 miles to the inch of the records for 
each year from between 3000 to 4000 stations, exercised to 
the utmost Mr. Waite’s high qualities for such work, and Dr. 
Mill pays a warm tribute to his care and neatuess in ‘ British 
Rainfall, 1906, page 10.” 
Mr. Waite’s intelligence and capacity for careful detail 
work enabled him to render valuable assistance to Dr. Bruce 
and Mr. Mossman in tabulating meteorological observations 
of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, and also in 
working out the results of physical investigations of the sea. 
His interest in meteorology became greater than his earlier 
taste for botany, but he continued an active Fellow of the 
Botanical Society, and was a member of the Council at the 
time of his death. Of a singularly modest and retiring dis- 
position, he was greatly beloved by those who knew him 
because of his kindliness and readiness to help in every way 
to the utmost of his ability. He rendered invaluable service 
to the Society as a member of the Publication Committee 
by the assiduity and care with which he supervised the 
printing of the “Transactions.” Though physically weak he 
was fond of work, and was fully occupied up to the last. 
After an attack of influenza blood-poisoning supervened, and 
he died on 13th February 1907, at the early age of 48 years, 
to the great regret of his many friends. 
Sir THomas Hansury, K.C.V.O. (The Marquess Hanbury.) 
Thomas Hanbury was the third son of Daniel Bell Han- 
bury, of the firm of Allen & Hanbury, pharmaceutical 
chemists, London, and was born at Clapham, London, on 
21st June 1832. He was educated at the Society of Friends’ 
School at Croydon, and at the age of seventeen entered the 
office of a firm of tea-brokers in Mincing Lane. At the 
early age of twenty-one, with three other young men, he 
founded the firm of Hanbury & Co., East India merchants, 
at Shanghai, and from 1852 to 1872 he lived the life of a 
merchant in China, with brief furloughs in 1858 and 1866. 
