RIGUT REVD. GEORGE FREDERICK HOSE, D.D. 3 
HKuropean Community of the Straits, but also by Christians 
in many remote Mission Stations on the rivers of Sarawak, 
and in the principal stations of British North Borneo. 
This: note cannot conclude without reference to the 
memory of Mrs. Hose, who is buried in Sarawak, and who for 
over 30 years set a high example of courage and devotion to 
every Christian woman in the Far Hast. _ 
R. N. BLAND. 
15th February, 1909. 
As stated in the note above by Mr. BLAND, Bishop Hose 
was the Founder of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society on Nov. 4, 1877, and was elected its first president in 
1878. He remained as President being annually re-elected 
till his retirement from the Kast. 
As President in 1878 he delivered an inaugural address 
embodying the aims and objects of the Society and suggesting 
the lines on which the members should carry out the work 
of investigating and recording the unknown facts and history 
of the Malay Peninsula, and the ideas suggested by him have 
been carried out to a very large extent. The original members 
of the Society were ten in number, of whom the only remain- 
ing ones are the Bishop (then the Venerable Archdeacon G. F. 
Hose) and. Mr. D. F. A. Hervey, who are both life members. 
The Bishop delivered two more Presidential addresses in 1879 
and 1880, and also published in the Journal an account of the 
' Ruins of Buro Budur, a catalogue of the ferns of Borneo, a 
list of ferns of Penrissen in Borneo and an account of the 
contents of a Dyak medicine chest. 
The ferns of Borneo and of the Malay Peninsula had 
always a great attraction for him, and during his missionary 
travels he succeeded in making an extensive collection of these 
plants and adding a great deal to our knowledge of them. He 
freely distributed specimens to various Museums and a very 
complete series is preserved in the herbarium of the Singapore 
Botanic Gardens. Many of the new species discovered by 
him were described by Mr. Baker of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
Rk. A. Soc., No. 57, I910. 
