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JOHN BENNETT CARRUTHERS 
(1869-1910). 
(WITH PORTRAIT.) 
It is difficult for those who have themselves attained a certain 
age to realize that time, which seems to have passed so rapidl 
with them, has progressed equally quickly with their juniors. The 
rapidity with which younger folk grow up is always surprising and 
even puzzling: this is, perhaps naturally, often little realized by 
parents, who are—and still more were—wont to resent what 
long after their children have ceased to be in statu pupillari. 
This development also makes the more elderly folk seem old; this 
any case the realization is difficult, and sometimes startling ; it is 
so in the case of the present writer, whose first introduction to a 
of the officials by his liveliness and natural desire for amusemen 
in which he was anxious they should participate. 
This geniality and brightness characterized throughout life John 
Bennett Carruthers, whose death, at the early age of forty-one, 
has deprived Colonial botany of one of its most popular officials. 
Born at Islington on Janua 19, 1869, and named in compliment 
_ to John meen” Bennett, whom his father had just succeeded as 
e 
e f Department of Botany, young Carruthers may be 
id bee tined to a botanica capa- 
bilities in that ion were not however earl nt; at 
| here he was educated be: as r 
