Obituary Notices. 159 



General Muuro died at Lis residence, Monty's Court, 

 near Taunton, on 29tli January, aged sixty-four, bequeath- 

 ing his collections to the Kew Herbarium. 



Miss Frances Hope of Wardie Lodge, who died suddenly 

 on the 26th April last, was elected a Lady Associate on 

 13th February 1873. This deletion from that small list 

 would alone be noteworthy, as it has long characterised the 

 favour with which our Society has viewed the question of 

 the higher female education. But Miss Hope bore an 

 honoured name in the horticultural world. Her garden was 

 as much a place of reference for plant lovers as the printed 

 page. Her love for individual species of plants was intense. 

 She will always be known as the introducer of varieties of 

 the Hellchorus niger^ and of variegated Kale for winter 

 decoration. Miss Hope was as fond of giving flowers to 

 those who knew how to appreciate them, as in receiving 

 such gifts. Connected with a family well known amongst 

 our Scottish aristocracy, and a lineal descendent of two 

 celebrated Edinburgh professors of natural sciences. Miss 

 Hope might often be seen driving on our highways in her 

 yellow chariot, with its accompanying postilion, yet she 

 would also be found often working, alike in wet and dry 

 weather, amongst her plants, along with humble servitors, 

 and in a dress adapted rather for utility than social 

 distinction. Another genuine type of the old lady of the 

 true Scottish school has thus passed away. A small 

 memorial volume of Miss Hope's horticultural writings has 

 just appeared. 



The late Dr John Sime Cowan of Dunbar was amongst 

 the list of those students who, fired by the zeal of our 

 veteran emeritus professor, joined onr ranks, carrying their 

 love of plants through the harassing details of a medical 

 curriculum, and the far more annoying worries of a country' 

 practice. This silent influence of our science through 

 wide-scattered districts is surely of value, even if not de- 

 veloped into learned monographs. Dr Cowan was a native 

 of Rattray in Perthshire. He attended the Botanic Class 

 during 1857, was a diligent student, and was admitted a 

 Resident Member of our Society on 9th December 18G9. 



