MR. J. G. BAKER, F.R.S. 243 
was appointed rs botanist and examiner of seeds to the 
Cheshire Agricultural Society. 
In 1875 the pre oailing east depression and the expense 
attendant on bringing up a numerous family co ae ei Mr. Holland 
to leave Mobberley. He became F tansiat to Sir Richard Brooke at 
Norton Priory, near Halton,—one of the places, naturally beautiful, 
which have been ruined and devastated by the noxious vapours 
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no re expect any . But the end 
suddenly. On the 16th of July, Mr. Holland was talking to a 
signalman on the railway near Acton Grange, when he fell to the 
ground, a nd on being raised, life was found to be extinct. Man 
besides the writer of this notice have lost in Robert Holland a genial 
companion and a true friend. James Bairren. 
MR. J. G. BAKER, F.R.S. 
We trust that it may be very many years before it will become 
necessary to give in this Journal any estimate of the life-work of 
My. 5. @. Baker, and that the record of such work may be far more 
lengthy than it is at present before it arrives at its close. But w 
think that many of our readers who have not the happiness of 
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