96 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Geographical Pioneer| in East Equatorial Africa.’’ Mr. Wakefield, 
ee ose claim notice in these pages rests on the fact that in 1880 
1884 a ery collections to Kew, was born in Derby on we 
o3rd of June, 1836. He was apprenticed to a printer, but as s 
as he was out of his time became a minister of the Methodist Fie 
Church. In 1861 he resolved to devote himself to missionary work, 
and early in the following year arrived at Zanzibar. Here he made 
the acquaintance of Sir “John Kirk and Colonel Grant, who en- 
couraged him to collect plants; he also paid much attention to the 
customs and folk-lore of the country of the Gallas, where he esta- 
blished a mission. Failing health Sil eee Wakefield’s ke iy 
England in 1901, where he died on the 15th of December, a 
rently at Southport, Lancashire, though this is not definitely sated, 
and was buried in St. Cuthbert’s Chureh vat, North Meols. In 
appendix are given lists of the plants sent to Kew; it is eR 46 
be regretted that these were not submitted to some botanist, or at 
least to some one acquainted with the names of esas sae correction; 
as they stand, they are almost unintelligible—e. g. “‘Com 
ele agnoides. Bit, se mftnothamnus Zangurbaricas, Hn.” 
The collector, whose portrait appears as a at to the volume, 
is commemorated in Turrea Wakefieldii Oliv 
Tuomson Puayrarr, M.D. Edinb., oe Bromley, Kent, who 
was born in March, 1855, died at Bournemouth on 1st Febr ruary. 
He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1888, and was a 
member of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club and of the Watson 
Exchange Club. Dr. Playfair was an excellent field botanist, and 
had formed a good herbarium of British phanerogams. Ata student 
at Edinburgh University he obtained the Herbarium Gold Medal. 
WE are glad to learn that Mr. Samuel Alexander Stewart, of the 
Belfast Museum, has been elected an Associate of the Linnean 
Society. Mr. Stewart was born at Philadelphia in 1826. Twelve 
years later he came to Belfast, where he has since remained. 
Attendance at classes conducted by Ralph Tate under the Science 
d Art Department developed his taste for natural history, and 
from that time onward he has frequently contributed papers to the 
Belfast Naturalists’ Club, cn of which have been published in the 
Trish Naturalist and elsewhere. His most important work is the 
Flora of the North-east of Daand (1888) in a Pegg with Mr. 
T. H. Corry, and was carried to dietagie y eg after 
Corry’s untimely death. We h always mai ints that the 
Scat of the Linnean Baceky should be aed for those 
o have done useful scientific work, but are unable to become 
to b 
Society who, at the meeting at which Mr. Stewart was aig 
rejected another candidate not possessing such qualifications 
Tne Association Internationale des Botanistes proposes to issue 
at a cheap rate an annual volume containing all the diagnoses of 
new species, subspecies, and varieties which have appe eared during 
the year. Further information may be obtained from the Secretary 
of the Association, Dr. J. P. Lotzy, Leiden. 
