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by this Society when, in 1898, it enrolled Mr. Panthing 
among its Associates. 
The preparation of the numerous drawings included in 
this work, and of many others of species from provinces 
other than Sikkim, led to some impairment of Mr. 
Panthing’s eyesight. This circumstance, coupled with 
the diminished leisure due to his promotion to the executive 
charge of the Cinchona Plantation, prevented him from 
making available to the public after 1898 the extensive 
knowledge of the family which he had acquired, and 
debarred him to a large extent from further pursuing his 
botanical studies. His health gave way towards the end 
of 1909, and early in 1910 he had to be invalided to 
Europe. He died at Suez, on the way home, after having 
served the Government of Bengal for thirty-one years, at 
the age of fifty-four. 
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, completes our somewhat 
melancholy survey of those members whom we have lost 
during the year. Their record of work and devotion to 
duty will, I hope, encourage those who are with us, espe- 
cially the younger ones, to increased zeal and to thorough- 
ness, to much original research, and, let us hope, to the 
continued efficient and successful carrying on of the great 
work of the advancement of botanical knowledge and 
botanical science. 
It only remains for me now to repeat my great apprecia- 
tion of the high honour that the Society has done me in 
permitting me to hold this Chair for two successive sessions, 
and to thank all the members of the Society for the con- 
sideration and kindness with which they have received my 
imperfect efforts to carry out its duties. It is with un- 
feigned pleasure that I congratulate the Society in having 
selected as my successor Dr. Borthwick, in whose favour I 
now vacate this Chair. 
