
1908. } Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Ixxxix 
in 1885 we find him inviting botanists to work in Java, haying 
persuaded his Government to go to the liberality of providing 
accommodation for them. This generosity has been ap 
Nearly one hundred botanists have made use of it; aud wlidioat 
doubt the value of their work has been not inconsiderable to the 
colon 
Tre b, meanwhile in order still to carry on his scientific work 
without letting it interfere with his large administrative duties, 
, I believe, daily in his laboratory at the time when all 
Huropeans in Java take a siesta. In 1888 he took an opportunity 
of visiting the island of Krakatoa, the scorched-up, ash-buried 
island of the great eruption of 1883, and recorded how the vege- 
tation was returning to it, what poe of plants came first by 
means of their sufficient means of distribution, and what came 
I . nie 
covery of “ chalazogamy 
stalk. His long previous work had led up to this—no mere for- 
tunate accident. 
uring these years Treub’s pies had grown enormously by 
the addition to it of men to cope with economic problems, and 
about five years ago the Dutch oeutisiedt decided on turning it 
and strengthening it into an a roma Department. Treub 
Research Institutes as well as work in Pharmacology and all the 
ure Botany of the Dutch Indies. The growth has been due to 
Hrenb’s ability. 
Treub has almost finished his service in the East, and it is 
appropriate that he as a pioneer botanist of the East should be 
one of our Honorary members. He has been a forei erred 
of the Royal Society since 1899 and of the Linnean Society si 
1887, and the Crown of Holland has conferred on him the title 
of Professor 
He visited India in 1904, and is familiar with the status and 
work of our Society. (I. H. Burxr.t.) 

Professor Herman Oldenberg holds a conspicuous place in 
that —— of European Sanskritists which constitutes what 
we may call the older generation, mw that almost all those 
guis shad Oriental scholars whose early works saw the light 
about the middle of the last century ha bai passed away. Professor 
enberg for a Oe ae time taught at the ecising | of 
acs Cage - a gale Docen i Se “ Professor Extraordinarius”: later 
hg ee nary Professor of Sanskrit in the 
Taiveciy of Kiel ant EA is living at present. His publica- 
