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F. ARNOLD LEES, M.R.C.S. 



By the death, which took place on Sept. 17th, of Mr. F. 

 Arnold Lees, of Mcanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire loses one of its 

 best -known botanists. Mr. Lees was the son of a Leeds 

 medical man. He was himself educated for the medical pro- 

 fession, and qualified in 1871 as a Member of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. 



For many years he practised in Leeds, residing for a long 

 period at Meanwood Lodge. As pointed out in The Yorkshire 

 Post, it was as a botanist rather than as a doctor that he was 

 most widely known. As long ago as 1878 he was associated 

 with the late J. W. Davis, at one time Mayor of Halifax, in 

 the production of a book on ' West Yorkshire,' which gave 

 an account of the geology and botany of the Riding. The 

 work went to a second edition, and except in respect to the 

 more populated parts of the Riding, where changes have 

 be(Mi great, it hns n< vor lost its value. In 1S88 the Yorkshire 



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