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Mn. THOMAS WILLIAM BROWN, formerly a we pure: of the 
Gardening Staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens and late Acting 
Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, Gold Coast t (Kow Bulletin, 
1899, p. 50), has been ipone Assistant Curato 
MR. BERNARD | ÜAVANAGH) a member of the ey Staff 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed, on the recom- 
mendation of Kew , Superintendent of the Gardens of the Agri- 
Juke o geen Society, Madras, in succession to Mr. J. M. Gleeson, 
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. awarded the Wacken, old Medal of the Dal eni of | 
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PROFESSOR FRANCIS GUTHRIE, LL.B., B.A.—The death of this 
distinguished South African ep e science, on October 19 last, 
at Cape Town, deserves a brief r 
University. He was called to the Bar and lon eee okay 
mee In 1861 he was appointed to the Chair of Mithesnaticn 
n Graaf-Reinet College, which he resigned in 1876 for a similar 
Chair i in the South African College. He retired in 1898. 
A pupil of the celebrated Lindley, he devoted himself to the 
study of the flora of his adopted country. He had latterly been 
engaged with the well-known South African botanist, Harry Bolus, 
in an elaboration of the Ericacee for the fourth volume of the 
Flora Capensis, of which the continuation is now in course of 
preparation at Kew 
Sir Rawson WILLIAM Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B.—Sir Rawson 
Rawson, who died on November 50, 1899, at the age of 88, 
was one of the many Colonial Governors who have done good 
service to Kew and botanical science. He was, perhaps, 
eminent as a statistician and geographer than a botanist, bar a 
was joint author, with Dr. L. Pappe, of a Synopsis Filicum Africe 
Australis, published at Cape Town in 1858. He had, before pro- 
ceeding to South Africa, made a study of ferns. Sir R. Rawson 
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years later Governor of the Bahamas, and subsequently of the 
Windward Islands, retiring in 1869. During his residence at the 
ape he was in frequent correspondence with the late Sir ee 
Hooker, chiefly on questions relating to the ferns of that Colony 
(of which he sent specimens to Kew), but also with a tin to 
contributions of museum objects, living plants, and seeds. 
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