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Gustavus, but in a few months he resumed his kingship. 
In a position of almost unexampled difficulty he strove to 
preserve friendly relations between the two nations, and 
it is generally admitted that his personal intervention 
secured the avoidance of bloodshed in the revolution by 
which Sweden and Norway became separate kingdoms. 
By his actions throughout the long years of difficulty and 
contention he earned the enviable title of the Peacemaker. 
While the late Professor J. Hutton Balfour was on a 
visit to Sweden, King Oscar made his acquaintance, and 
their common interest in natural science led to a personal 
friendship which resulted in King Oscar becoming a Fellow 
of the Society in 1877. Reference was made to the dis- 
tinguished place occupied by King Oscar II. in science, art, 
poetry, and literature when recording his death at the 
December meeting of the Society in 1907 (see “Transac- 
tions,” vol. xxiil., part iv., p. 306). 
J. K. Minne of Kevock Tower, Lasswade, became a 
Fellow in 1875, and died some time ago, no notice having 
reached us till recently. 
Frank C. CRAWFORD, who became a Fellow in July 1897, 
died suddenly at his residence, 19 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, 
on 9th February 1908. He was the younger son of Adam 
Howden Crawford of the Hon. East India Co.’s Service, and 
was educated at the Edinburgh Academy. After a pre- 
liminary training in Edinburgh, he jomed the London Stock 
Exchange, and after about twenty years he retired and came 
to reside in Edinburgh. He was greatly attracted by the 
study of natural history, and was a most assiduous 
collector. He devoted special attention to the genus Carex, 
and an exhaustive work by him on British sedges was in 
the press at the time of his death. He was at one time 
President of the Microscopical Society, and took great 
interest in the work of the Botanical Society, to which 
he frequently contributed. 
The study of British birds was also one of his hobbies, 
and he possessed a very fine collection. He took great 
interest also in the study of shells, of which he possessed 
many beautiful examples. He was of a happy and enthusi- 
