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Mr. ALBERT EDOUARD PIERRE GRIESSEN, a member of the 
Gardening Staff of the Royal Gardens, has been appointed, on the 
recommendation of Kew, by the Secretary of State for India in 
Council, a Probationer Gardener for employment in the Royal 
Botanic dardai, Calcutta 
Sir HENRY BARKLY, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S.—Botany has 
been promoted, and Kew has S gr eatly benefited by the action of 
many Coldnial Fidei n but probably none have done so much 
as the late Sir Hen vag. who died at his residence in South 
r a, Ja 
ritius, and the Cape of Good Hope, he had excellent opportunities 
r indulging his taste for Botany, and exercising his influence 
over Colonial Botanical Institutions. His correspondence with 
Kew goes at least as far back as 1852, when he wrote to the late 
Sir William Hooker, from Gov ernment House, Seoige yib 
British Guiana. He advises the despatch to Kew of a wardia 
case containing ferns, lycopod jungermannias, a “new 
warf Sobralia.’ Th following year (1853) W. Hooke 
dedicated the seventy-ninth volu of the Botanical Magazine 
o Sir H, Barkly, ** who, amidst n. many arduous duties attend- 
ant upon his pac m ow patronized and encouraged 
horticulture and bot colonies.” In 1858 the late Sir 
Ferdinand Mueller edicated « a Rn dones genus of the Sophorez, 
Barklya syringifolia to him. his is a monotypic genus 
inhabiting the Brisbane river district, and is figured in Mueller's 
xk Fibs (i. t. 3). It was See Gee E English gardens the 
ear, and is still cultivated at Kew; but it grows very 
or 
thence in the Kew correspondence "aue A857) 1 - almost 
entirely devoted to Botany and gardenin g. He diim moons 
Mueller’s return from Gregory’s North Australian Expedition, 
and states that Mueller was most Lic dese ed by the existence of a 
species of baobab in Australia. His interest in plants never 
lars 
and museum objects. In South Africa, his last sphere of active 
official Tife (1873. -7), he paid special attention to de e plants, 
wits more particularly to the Stapelieew. He collected and culti- 
ted as man 
Merida of living plants to Kew. Lady Barkly and Miss E. B. 
rkly made water-colour drawings of thenr as they flowered. 
Copies of these drawings were sent to Kew, together with 
specimens in alcohol, accompanied by c copious descriptive notes. 
A portion of this material was published in Hooker's Zcones 
Plantarwm, plates 1901-1925 ; and coloured figures of a number 
E bee that flowered at Kew appeared in the Botanical Magazine 
enry was also instrumental in the re-introduction of Aloe 
dishorones and other species of this characteristic African genus. 
He was joint author with Colonel Pike of a report on the flora 
