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GEOLOGICAL MAG. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. VI 



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No. VI.— JUNE, 1919. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



BY the death of Sir Frank Crisp, Bart., on April 29, in his 77th 

 year, science in general has lost a very generous supporter 

 and a valuable fellow-worker. Late senior partner in the well-known 

 City firm of Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co., solicitors, Throgmorton 

 Avenue, he devoted fifty years to law, but gave all his leisure and 

 much of his income to scientific pursuits. He was a keen student 

 and lover of microscopic research, and was an ardent supporter and 

 honorary secretary of the lloyal Microscopical Society, for which 

 Society he obtained a lloyal Charter. From 1879 to 1889 Crisp 

 wrote the bulk of the invaluable bibliographical abstracts in the 

 Journal R.M.S., and generously supported the publication by every 

 means in his power. He formed, with much knowledge and at 

 great expense, a most instructive and remarkable collection of 

 instruments from the very earliest known microscopes to those of 

 the most modern and costly construction provided with a great 

 series of lenses of every kind. These he presented to the nation for 

 the new Science Museum at South Kensington, the delay in the 

 completion of which (caused by the War) has hitherto prevented 

 their exhibition to the public. Sir Frank was also a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, on the Council of which he served for nearly forty 

 years, filling the various offices of Treasurer, Yice-President, and 

 Solicitor. He procured the modification of the Society's charter to 

 cover the admission of women as Fellows in 1904. He was 

 pre-eminent as a botanist and collector of rare and remarkable living 

 plants, to procure which he spared no expense. In Alpine plants 

 alone he has brought together upwards of four thousand different 

 species. His rock-garden at Friar Park, Henley, crowned with an 



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