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sensitive mouth ; the wide benevolent forehead ; the ragged 

 penthouse brows, shading eyes sometimes almost uncanny in 

 their weird brightness, sometimes beaming with simple child- 

 like pleasure, — the pleasure perhaps of knowing that he had in 

 his pocket some rare volume picked up at a second-hand book 

 stall for the friend to whom he was talking ; the long, lean 

 nervous hands, pointed at the tips for handling of minute 



specimens, dusty with dust of rarely opened books 



The shabby clothes never concealed that impalpable some- 

 thing, that unconscious indestructible stamp of refinement, 

 of gentle birth and gentle culture, which was one of the 

 most delicately marked characteristics of the man so markedly 

 humble." 



]\Ir Xewbould was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1843. A genus of the Bignoniacese has been named after 

 him. 



The late Edouard Moeren, professor of botany, Liege, was 

 elected one of -our Foreign Corresponding Fellows in 1876 ; 

 and was removed to the .list of Foreign Honorary Fellows 

 in the followmg year. First assistant, and subsequently 

 successor to his father Charles Morren, as professor and 

 curator of the Botanical Institute at Liege, he deepened the 

 influence of his parent in furthering Belgian agriculture 

 and horticulture ; at the same time makmg the Institute 

 recognised as one of the best-equipped science schools in 

 Europe. Morren perhaps was most widely known as editor 

 of the Belgique Horticole and the Correspondence Botanique. 

 His talents as an administrator found scope as secretary of 

 the Federation of Belgian Horticultural Societies. The late 

 Antwerp Botanical International Congress of 1885 owed its 

 great success to his indomitable assiduity. 



Edouard Morren was born at Ghent in 1833. Here he 

 also succeeded his father as botanical professor, — the offer of 

 a prize essay on leaf structure and the colouring matters of 

 jjlants first specialising his studies, which had previously 

 alternated betwixt tlie law and journalism. 



He had the largest and most complete collection of living 

 Bromeliads, intending to write an extended monograph on 

 the order. 



Both father and son were valued correspondents with our 



