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and Military Government of the Province of Assam was, by t 
Government of India, united in Col. Collett. He justified this 
confidence by the speedy restoration of English authority, almost 
without bloodshed; while he showed remarkable capacity in the 
Civil administration of the Provin ce 
Col. Collett had from youth a tu urn a erence. In his earlier 
days in India he had devoted time to astronomy. During his resi- 
dence at Simla, a small band of ardent nataraticts formed the Simla 
Natural History Club, and Collett left psec for botany. The 
Simla Club printed papers of atu —among: others: ‘‘On the 
long- and short-styled flowers a Roebeedua (a case of trimor- 
Den On “On the Fertilization of Simla Orchids,” ‘‘On the Ferns 
ie service in the Shan States, Collett collected eight 
hundred Phanerogams, which formed the subj a& paper by 
himself an r. Hemsley in Journ. hin. Soc. xxviii. (1891), 
mong these are new and ae species, such as Rosa 
saantik: Lonicera Hildebrandiana (with in. long), 
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Bulbophyllum comosum, Cirrhopetalum Gollsdieitine all of which 
treasures Collett got alive to Englan 
ore leaving India, the Government offered him the post of 
Quartermaster-General ; "and after his retirement, a telegraph from 
Government, cary erin g him a first- class divisional command, overtook 
him at New 
Among the large English population of Simla are many who 
had paid no attention to “botany in England, but whose souls are 
stirred by the novel vegetation and wish to know something about 
it. The only book ao age am eae the Simla Flora is 
the Flora of British India, 0 . D. Hooker. This work in 
principal part of his time for science to the preparation of a Flora 
of Simla, complete as to po gases nee for an area gaa hg 
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hundred figures in the Sexi, This book is designed to fs as & 
Sir i Hens Collett had the habits of a student and read upon 
various subjects Sane y the chief botanic physiology published), 
so as to make gist of the matter his own. As a man he was 
Pango by all. "We attempt here to record briefly what he has 
tany. 
C. B. OCuarke. 
