3874 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Parasnath, and botanically explored Sirguja, a native state in the 
extreme south-west, bordering on the upper Mahanadi. Some o 
the results of this journey appeared in the Linnean Society’s Journal 
for 1884. Later in the year he spent his vacation in Lower Sikkim, 
e Terai, and the Duars. During this year he had to resume 
temporarily the work of Professor of Mathematics at the Presidency 
ollege. In December of the same year he was appointed to 
officiate as Director of Public Instruction in Bengal; and in 
arch, 1885, he was transferred, as Inspector of Schools, from 
Bengal to the Province of Assam, with his headquarters at Shillong. 
This fortunate change of province enabled Clarke to increase his 
knowledge of the vegetation of the Khasia Hills, where he made 
rhaps the most 
important, certainly the most arduous, since his visit to the Kara- 
i d 
throughout his Indian service, quite exceptional. Energetic and 
tireless, careful and exact, he was an ideal collector. His tickets 
still, each specimen bears a different field number, so that confusion 
Cyperacee. Another feature of his work was his preponderating 
imterest in herbaceous species, and the comparative indifference 
with which he regarded trees. 
In connection with his study of the Cyperacea, Clarke, after his 
is famil 
