cxx Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 
Society for a considerable period, having been elected Natural 
History Secretary in 1888, General Secretary in 1895, and 
Vice-President in 1901. It is hardly to the credit of the 
Society that he never occupied the President’s chair. 
[NELSonN ANNANDALE. |] 
Sir CLemMents Ropert Marxuam, K.C.B., F.R.S., D.Sc. 
Born at Stillingfleet near York, July 20,1830. Educated 
at Westminster School. He was appointed a naval cadet in 
1844, and served in the Arctic Expedition in search of Sir 
John Franklin in 1850—51. He explored Peru and the forests 
of the E. Andes in 1852—54. In 1854 he was appointed to a 
clerkship in the Board of Control, India Office. From 1859 to 
1862 he organized an expedition to South America to collect 
cinchona plants and seeds, and succeeded in transferring them 
to India. He selected sites for the plantations in India in- 
cluding those in the Darjeeling district and the Nilgiri Hills, 
where at the present time there are extensive cinchona estates 
and quinine factories. He continued to hold various appoint- 
this country fifty years ago. [D. Hooper] 
Edward Granville Browne, M.A., M.B., M.B.C.S., L.B.O-P+y 
M.R.A.S., F.B.A.; Lecturer in Persian, 1882—1902; Sir Thomas 
Adams Professor of Arabic since 1902; Fellow of Pembroke 
Coll., Camb., since 1887; Fellow of British Academy, 1903. 
Graduated at Cambridge in Natural Sciences Tripos, 1882; 
Languages Tripos, 1884, Studied Oriental Languages 
in Cambridge, 1879—84; London, 1884—87; travelled 1. 
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