8 Northern News. 
Bakererella,- Van Tieghem (Loranthacez). Species: Rosa 
Bakert Dereglise; Rubus Bakeri, F. A. Lees; Galium Bakert 
Lyme; Anthurium Bakert, Hook. fil; Allium Bakerit, Regel ; 
Eucharts Bakert, N. E. Brown; Crinum Bakerz, Schumann 3 
Iris Bakert, Foster; Draceena Bakert, Scott-Elliott ; Rhodo- 
lena Bakert, Baillor, ete. 
A valuable part of Mr. Baker’s work has been his carefully 
prepared biographical notices of various botanists. In 1902 
the Tyneside Field Club printed his paper on the ‘ Early 
Botanists of Northumberland and Durham,’ and to the Yorkshire 
Naturalists Union, in 1885, he gave an address on ‘ Fathers of 
Yorkshire Botany,’ which was printed in the Union’s Botanical 
Transactions. 
Notwithstanding the enormous amount of his writings, and 
his practical botanical work, Mr. Baker has done much by 
lecturing, etc., to train other botanists, not a few of whom, 
occupying prominent positions to-day, express their indebted- 
ness to him for his painstaking addresses. 
In 1869 he was appointed lecturer on botany to the London 
Hospital ; for thirty years (between 1874 and 1904) he was 
lecturer at Kew Gardens ; from 1882 to 1896 he was lecturer on 
Botany to the Society of Apothecaries at Chelsea Gardens. In 
1866 hé*was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society. The 
Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society was awarded 
to him in 1897, and the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society 
in 1899. These are only some of the many well-deserved 
honours that have been bestowed upon him by the various 
learned societies in Britain and abroad. As might be expected, 
he was amongst the first of the Presidents of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, occupying the presidential chair in 1884-5, 
during which he gave addresses on ‘ Recent Progress in English 
Botany’ and ‘ Fathers of Yorkshire Botany.’—T. S. 
que wae 
Arrangements are being made for a Course of University Extension 
Lectures which Professor L. C. Miall has consented to give in the last year 
of the tenure of his Professorship. The subject of the Course will be ‘ The 
Early Naturalists, their lives and works.’ Final arrangements are not quite 
complete, but the course will probably begin on January grist. The lectures 
will deal with Natural History before John Ray ; Early workers with the 
microscope ; The Growth of System from Linnzeus onwards ; Life Histories 
of Insects; Theories of the Earth and the origin of Species ; Summary of 
progress from Ray to Cuviér, etc. Further particulars may be had on 
application to Dr. W. G. Smith, the University, Leeds. A proposal has 
been made by some of Professor Miall's friends inside and outside the 
University that, on the occasion of his retirement in June next from his 
Chair, his,services should be commemorated by the painting of his portrait 
for the University, and a committee has been formed to carry this out. 
Naturalist, 
