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made extensive studies of the vegetation of the Malay 
Peninsula. The “ Kew Bulletin” of May 1909 gives a list of 
no fewer than sixty-three works published by the late Sir 
George King, many of them not only of great importance, 
but of a nature that must have involved an immense ex- 
penditure of labour and time as well as of scientific research. 
In 1891 Sir George King was appointed first Director of 
the Botanical Survey of India, involving a labour so great 
that he resigned his professorial chair in order that he 
might have time to discharge the onerous duties of that 
appointment. After thirty-three years of strenuous work 
he retired from the service of the Indian Government in 
1898. Living at San Remo in the winter months, he 
devoted in these later years his services to valuable work 
in the gardens at Kew, on the various lines that had 
occupied him in his earlier years. 
His services to the Indian Empire, which were in no way 
restricted to his official duties, were recognised by his 
having conferred upon him the honour of being created in 
1898 a K.C.I.E, an honour that was richly deserved. 
Whilst in Calcutta he was a fellow of the University there, 
and he took a leading part in its management. He was 
connected with the inception of the now famous Zoological 
Gardens at Calcutta, he was a trustee of the Indian 
Museum, and a member of the Board of the Engineering 
College of Bengal. Other honours were conferred upon 
him: the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society ; 
honorary membership of the Pharmaceutical Society; the 
rank of Officier dInstruction publique, with a ring of 
honour, from the Czar of Russia; medals of the Linnzan 
Society, and medallion portraits placed both in the Zoological 
and Botanic Gardens at Calcutta. You will realise from 
what I have been able in a few words to outline to you of 
his life and his work that he was one of the foremost 
botanists of his day, whose loss we may well deplore, while 
we may feel that in accepting from us in 1895 the distine- 
tion of honorary fellowship of this Society, he conferred 
on us an honour of which we may well be proud. 
I now pass to our loss in the deaths of three of the 
foreign corresponding members of the Society. 
Professor JoAo Barposa RopRIQUES, a_ well-known: 
