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His activities were not confined entirely to scientific work, 
nor did botany only represent his scientific interest. His 
earliest papers to the Journal of this Society were zoological, 
and it is to his interest in the sister science that the establish- 
ment of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens was in no small degree 
brought about—a service that has been gracefully acknowledged 
by the placing in the Zoological Gardens of a bronze medallion 
of him, along with another of his friend and associate in the 
work, Lieut -Colonel D. D. Cunningham. For many years he 
as a Trustee of the Indian Museum and for a time Chairman 
of the Trust, while he also served the University of Calcutta as 
a member of the Senate and of the Syndicate. His connection 
with the Asiatic Society of Bengal dates from 1867, in which 
vear he was elected an Ordinary Member on 4th December. 
Although he did not hold any of the higher offices in the Society 
he supported it most liberally by his contributions, amongst the 
most important of which were the above mentioned ‘‘ Materials 
retirement, a distinction that King specially valued. He was a 
Fellow of the Linnean and of the Royal and various other 
learned Societies, and the recipient of several medals of honour. 
On the eve of his retirement he was created a Knight Com- 
mander of the Indian Empire, and on his retirement his ser- 
vices were acknowledged by Government in a special resolution 
After serving the long period of over 26 years as Superin- 
tendent of the Botanic Garden and of Cinchona Cultivation in 
Bengal, King retired on the 28th February, 1898. After his 
retirement his health unhappily did not permit him of settling 
permanently in England. So he oscillated between Englan 
health became more and more precarious, and he was at last 
borated with him. His last illness was mercifully brief, and 
occurred while he was residing at o. On the 8th 
February, 1909, he sustained an apoplectic seizure. Fortunately 
two old medical friends were living at San Remo at the time, 
and all that possibly could be done was done. A second shock, 
however , Supervened, against which there was no rally, and on 
Friday, 12th February, 1909, the end came. In accordance with 
his expressed wish he was buried at San Remo. 
__ King was a man of an unassuming and kindly nature, with 
wide sympathies embracing many interests. The world of science 
