130 Death of Dr. A. Barclay. [N'ov. 



The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



W. H. Lee, Esq., C. S. 



The Secretary reported the death of the following member : — 

 Surgeon-Major A. Barclay, I. M. S. 



The President read the following obituary notice : — 

 Surgeon-Major A. Barclay, an active member of this Society, died 

 of typhoid fever at Simla on the 2nd August. He was only 39 years of 

 age. His loss is deeply regretted by his own service and it is intended 

 to perpetuate his memory by means of some permanent monument. In 

 a public letter the present Surgeon General with the Government of India 

 says of Dr. Barclay, who was his Secretary : — " No one can know as I do 

 how much the service is indebted to Barclay. On all occasions, when ques- 

 tions affecting its welfare came up for discussion, his first thought was 

 for the preservation of the honor and dignity of it as a body, and for 

 the safe-giiarding of the interests of individual members. In this, for 

 a man ordinarily kindly, gentle and dispassionate, he was fearless in 

 giving expression to his views and never hesitated to put them forward 

 in forcible language." This is high but well deserved praise. To us 

 Dr. Barclay's work as a member of this Society is of the greatest in- 

 terest. His general knowledge was wide, but his leisure time w^as 

 specially devoted to the study of parasitic fungi of the order Uredinece. 

 Upon subjects connected with these fungi Dr. Barclay published eight 

 papers in the Scientific Memoirs by officers of the Indian Medical Service ; 

 seven papers in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and others 

 in the Annals of Botany.^ The Journal of Botany, The Transactions of the 

 Ziinnean Society and in the Journal of the Bomhay Natural History 

 Society. He was a good draughtsman and photo-micrographer and 

 m.ost of his papers were accompanied by excellent plates. It will be 

 seen therefore that Dr. Barclay was an untiring worker and apart from 

 the purely scientific interest attached to his writings he will be remem- 

 bered as one who has done well by shewing the public the nature of 

 fungi destructive to crops and by suggesting remedies. It was intended 

 to send Dr. Barclay to the South of India to investigate the Coffee disease, 

 an undertaking which would have been full of interest to him and to 

 the scientific world and of benefit to the coffee planters. His last scien- 

 tific work, before his death, was connected with the Leprosy Commission, 

 whose report will soon appear and we may rest assured that his contri- 

 butions to the work will be found marked by that energy and honesty 

 which was so characteristic of the man. 



