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bears his name, the Primula rosea Ostrowskia magnifica, 
and many other choice hardy plants. And yet, though he 
did so much, his garden was very small—on a steep hillside 
at his villa at Baden-Baden, laid out in a series of terraces. 
The climate there favoured him—warmer in spring and 
summer, and colder in winter than the English climate, 
and therefore favourable to the cultivation of the plants 
he was most devoted to. He seems to have been a man of 
genial and kindly habits, and to have had a host of friends 
and admirers. He worked among his plants more for love 
than for money, and never seems to have taken advantage 
of the commercial side of horticulture which his oppor- 
tunities and abilities made available to him. His name 
will long be remembered in botanical circles. 
Dr. Metcuior Trevs.—The other Hon. Foreign Fellow 
whose decease I have to record is Dr. Melchior Treub, 
who died at the comparatively early age of 58, at Saint 
Raphael, Var, France, on 3rd October last. He, too, had 
been a corresponding member of the Society since January 
1886. He was Professor in the School of Agriculture and 
Director of the Botanic Garden at Bustenzorg, Java. 
Dr. Treub was a very great botanist. Born in Holland, he 
went early to Java, being the first to hold the appointments 
I have just mentioned. He found there a wide sphere of 
research, and the result of the earliest of his investigations 
was the discovery of what is known as Chalazogamy in 
the fertilisation of certain plants—notably in Casuarina. 
This received great attention from European botanists, and 
led to much valuable research and discovery in the more 
temperate regions of Europe. Dr. Treub was of the 
opinion that his European compeers had their investiga- 
tions in far too narrow a compass, as tropical vegetation 
was practically outwith their ken, and he achieved a most 
important work in establishing in Java a Laboratory to 
enable European botanists to have a wider field of study, 
and I believe that this had been taken advantage of by a 
large number with most valuable results. Dr. Treub has 
passed away very soon after retiring from his active work, 
and it is to be feared that his long residence in the Tropics 
may have hastened his early death. 
