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notably i in 1895, pp. 63-75 and 288-293. A few have also appeared in 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum. 
The ollowing partieulars of his career were furnished by his brother, 
Mr. Thomas Carson :— 
Alexander Carson was born at Stirling, N. B., in the year 1850, and 
was educated at the High School there. Fo llowi wing his nataral bent he 
served an EPA in one of the Clyde Marine Engineering Works, 
and thereafter sailed as engineer on one of the Cunard Com pany's 
Meditérflibun v: quim ers. Being of a studious disposition, the rodlice 
duties of a ship engineer soon became distasteful to him, and having 
resigned his situation he entered Glasgow University with the view of 
qualifying himself for better work. Having taken the degree of B.Sc. 
in 1885, he was for some time employed in Glasgow engineering offices. 
In 1486 he accepted an wi od under the London Missionary 
Society for service at Lake Tanganyika. Having fitted up t the engines 
of the steamer ** Good News," a nd aving seen this, the first steamer on 
the lake, fairly at work, the immediate “object of his = Shiite was 
accomplished. His time was now devoted to teaching the natives the 
various industries, which his education qualified him to do, wor 
iron (in which the country abounds) being foremost. He also took an 
active part in educational wor 
In 1888 the Arabs of Ujiji menaced the lives of the missionaries on 
the lake shore, and access to the coast being cut off both by the 
Zanzibar and Nyasa gene all communications with and supplies from 
home were stopped for over a year. After five years’ work he enjoyed 
the customary twelve othe carious, resuming er work in 1892, 
The scene of his work was now at Fwambo, a native village some 50 
miles south of Lake Tanganyika, some tlióasands of feet above sea-level. 
Under his management much improvement has been made in the 
physieal eondition of this village; industry has beet fostered, the 
general habits of the people have been improved, and many hundr eds of 
the young have E me rudiments of ug while — 
able to resume his work for reir yai: - Then came a secon 
and a ‘third attack of the same disease, under which he sank from sheer 
weakness on February 28 of the present year. 
Botanical Magazine for June. —The — figured are: Agave 
laxifolia, Habenaria, Sloe, dene mishmensis, Eranthemum 
by 
= J. Elwes, Esq VoM. in whose gee it foweren in Jub ety 
The Phajus Krad is a Md of the Eastern Himalaya, and was 
discovered by William Griffith in 1836. The Kew plant was presented 
by the Right Hon. the Earl ar Scarbrough, who collected it himself. 
Eranthemum reticulatum, a fine ornamental plant, has been long in 
cultivation. It is probably a =n e of th porto Islands. 
iscia densa, native of Demera was to Kew by Mr. 
Government Botanist iod Superintendent of the Botanical 
denies of Gecrgetown, British Guian 
