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'George Simmonds Bottlqer (1853-1922) was a keen naturalist 

 from his earliest childhood; he was appointed Professor of Natural 

 History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, in 1876, 

 and occupied the chair for thirty years. As a lecturer on many 

 scientific subjects, as author of a book on Elementary Geology, of 

 several botanical volumes, and as an active contributor to natural- 

 history periodicals he rendered valuable service to biological science 

 in the widest sense, and played a prominent part in spreading the 

 gospel of Science among the people. He was elected into our 

 Society in 1875. 



A full account of Boulger's botanical work will be found in an 

 article by Mi\ James Britten, in the Journal of Botany for 

 August, 1922. 



Alfred Edward Caret was born at Wargrave (Berkshire) on 

 February 25th, 1852; he died at Reigate on December 30th, 1922. 

 He began his career as a Civil Engineer in the Way & Works 

 department of the London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway 

 Company, and was afterwards appointed Resident Engineer to the 

 Newhaven Harbour Company for the construction of the harbour, 

 which began in 1878. Subsequent to his experience in marine 

 work, Mr. Carey became a Consulting Engineer, first at Brighton 

 and later at Westminster. For many years he was a keen collector 

 of flint-implements. His principal technical work was published 

 in 1918 ; it was a study of foreshore problems, entitled ' Tidal 

 Lands ', written in collaboration with Prof. E. W. Oliver. He had 

 been a Fellow of this Society since 1887. 



John Casper Branner, President Emeritus of Stanford 

 University, California, died in his seventy-second year on March 

 1st, 1922. After serving as Director of the Imperial Survey 

 Commission in Brazil, where he worked both as botanist and 

 geologist, he was appointed, in 1885, Professor of Geology in the 

 University of Indiana ; in 1892 he was elected to the geological 

 chair at Stanford University, and subsequently became President. 

 Branner made many noteworthy contributions to Geology, as the 

 result of his survey-work in Brazil and in different parts of the 

 United States. He became a Fellow of our Society in 1898. 



Alfred Harper Cuims was born on July 12th, 1863: by his 

 death, on January 10th, 1923, the Imperial Mineral Resources 



