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series of micro-sections of a large number of British-grown 
trees and shrubs, made up into lantern slides, and showing 
the varying tissues of the different species in an admirable 
manner. Later on, he prepared and also presented to the 
Arboricultural Society a very fine collection of micro- 
photographic slides, illustrative of plant physiology and 
specially relating to forest trees. In recognition of the 
original work represented by the preparation of these 
sections and slides, the Society awarded him their gold 
medal. Mr. Mackenzie had been in failing health for a 
number of years before his death in July last, but he 
stuck to his work and to his duties, and in the end he died 
in harness, having been taken suddenly ill while in the 
superintendence of farm improvements under his charge. 
Mr. GEORGE STABLES, of Levens Milnethorpe, Westmore- 
land, a Non-Resident Fellow since November 1883, who 
died on 4th January last, was a botanist of no mean repute. 
Born in 1839, he was a schoolfellow of Richard Spruce, from 
whom he acquired his love for the Hepatice; and Mr. 
Stables is one of the authorities quoted from time to time 
by Mr. Macvicar in the work recently published. The 
Cryptogamic Flora of the Lake District was his favourite 
study, and he has published a valuable series of papers on 
the Hepaticee and Mosses of Westmoreland, and has added 
rare species to the British Flora. One genus, Stablesia, has 
been named after him. Failing sight, however, forced him 
to retire not only from his profession, but from his favourite 
study of the Cryptogamia. He had been quite blind for 
the last year or two of his life, but, notwithstanding this 
affliction, it was a continual pleasure to him to have 
plants brought to him that from feeling and description he 
might identify them. His death occurred very suddenly 
while sitting in conversation with friends. An appreciative 
notice of his work is recorded in the “Journal of Botany.” 
Mr. RoBERT PANTHING was an Associate of the Society 
since 1898, and an eminent botanist. To the authorities at 
Kew I am indebted for particulars of his life and work. 
Mr. Robert Panthing, whose death took place on 6th 
February 1910, was a native of the North of England. 
