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^ith him realised his unwearied industry in securing accuracy 

 -and completeness in this branch of work. 



He published in 1913 a Bibliography of the Tunicata, and was 

 part author with J. Cash and G. H. Wailes of a monograph on 

 British Fresh-water Rhizopoda for the 4th vol. of which he pre- 

 pared a bibliography. To the Transactions of the Herts Natural 

 History Society he contributed most useful annual reports from 

 1876 onwards, on the meteorology of the county embodying 

 a large number of phenological observations. These tables 

 were elaborated by him from the various recorders in all parts 

 of the county. As a Fellow of many scientific societies, he came 

 in contact with a wide circle of friends engaged in kindred pur- 

 suits, and all can certainly testify to their gaining by that 

 contact, both in the knowledge and assistance freely given by 

 him, and in the appreciation of an urbane and courteous 

 personality. 



Mr. Hopkinson became F.K.M.S. in 1867, and was elected 

 F.L.S. in 1875 ; he served on the Council from 1908 to 1911. He 

 joined the Q.M.C. in 1904. 



GEORGE STEPHEN WEST, M.A., D.Sc, F.I..S., 



Mason Professor of Botany in the University of Birmingham. 



(1876—1919.) 



Oeorge West was the younger of two brothers, sons of William 

 West, of Bradford (died 1914), a first-rate British botanist, with 

 a knowledge both of flowering plants and cryptogams. Both 

 sons inherited their father's love for field botany. The elder, 

 William, died in 1901, in India, where he had gone to take up 

 a botanical appointment. George, like his brother, was educated 

 at the Royal College of Science, and at St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he was elected to the Hutchinson Research Student- 

 ship. He left Cambridge to become Lecturer in Natural History 

 at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and in 1906 became 

 Lecturer in Botany at Birmingham University, under Prof. Hill- 

 house. On Hillhouse's retirement in 1909 West became Professor 

 of Botany, and in 1916 was appointed to the newly established 

 Mason Professorship. West was a successful teacher, and the 

 Botanical Department at Birmingham developed considerably 



