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OBITUARY. 
In Artour Barcuay, who died at Simla on the 2nd August, 
Botany has lost a zealous and successful worker. He was born at 
Edinburgh on the 3rd August, 1852, and received his school 
education at the International College, Isleworth. He studied 
Medicine at Edinburgh University for two years and at Glasgow _ 
niversity for two years, gaining at Glasgow the Gold Medal for 
Botany in 1871. He graduated at Glasgow M.B.C.M. in 1874, and 
studied for a further period at Wurzburg. In 1875 he entered the 
Indian Medical Service, and served with the 2nd Central India 
dates and 6th Bengal Cavalry. He acted afterwards as Civil 
Surgeon for a short time at Jessore, and relinquished this post for 
the Proliactship of Physiology at the Medical College, Calcutta 
The post he held at the time of his death was the Secretaryship to 
the eae a and Sanitary asedeaaatele e Govern- 
ment of India: in this office he so dist edad himself that 
fa Ce) 
vepett to which it may be added that he served in the Afghan 
1879-80, for which he had the medal with clasp, and was 
Shelsiaik at the capture of Ali Musjid. 
was during his residence at Calontts and association with Dr. 
King and Dr. Cunningham that Arthur Barclay received the first 
stimulus to research in Myc tg tases his intrest in Botany 
had been awake since his studen His e important 
earlier papers were spublicliad in eBhoe Scientific Memoirs of the 
Medical Saree of the Army of India. A few years ago he spent his 
leave of absence in this country, and made the acquaintance 
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how amply he could justify the Aids ak in him in the matter 
of research. Papers from his hand appeared almost at the same 
time in the Scientific vegies in this Journ fiat, in the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society. and in the Annals of Botany. Two more, 
recently read at the Tisinond Society, of which he became a Fellow 
in 1890, are in type, while a third will appear in the January 
number of this Journal. Barclay has beyond all doubt left his 
in the records of research, especially on the Uredinea. 
comment ; there e can be no question that th e 
of botanical interest is his paper in the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society on Uromyces Cunninghamianus. 
- described a aa type of Uredine life-histo: ry, with which his name 
will be associated in all future treatises on the morphology of 
ingi,—a fitting memorial of one taken from us in the day of his 
Grorce Murray. 
