120 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
SIR GEORGE KING 
(1840-1909). 
Sir Grorce Kine, K.C.1.E., F.R.S., LL.D., whose death took 
Secretary of State for India as successor to Dr ; 
Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of 
Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal. 
King took charge of the Calcutta Garden its amenity 
had heen greatly marred by two destructive cyclones in 1864 and 
lay was required in connection with: both undertakings, but from 
the outset King enjoyed the confidence of the Bengal Government 
, 
without incurring financial loss. 
While engaged in the heavy duties involved in these two 
undertakings, King was able to do much in carrying out a well- 
conceived botanical survey of the Eastern Himalaya, the English 
possessions in Indo-China, and the Malayan Peninsula, though he 
was for many years prevented from devoting much time to the 
as soon as the condition of the Gardens and plantations under his 
charge justified his taking this step, he founded the Annals of the 
oyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and from 1887 onwards he 
devoted all the time that he could spare to the elaboration of fully 
