Director of Agriculture of the F, M. S., Mr. B. Carru- 

 thers, for the excellent services, which he had rendered in 

 that capacity to the Planting Industry of the Malay Pen- 

 insula. 



This proposition is seconded by Mr. Parkinson and 

 ca rried unanimous 1 y . 



XVII. The Secretary is instructed to convene the 

 next Meeting on April 25th, 1909, at Kuala Lumpur. 



The Meeting then terminates at 1-45 p.m. 



H. C. E. Zachartas, 



Secretary. 



OBITUARY. 



Sir George King. 



It is with the deepest regret we have to record the 

 death of Sir George King, well-known here for his work 

 on the Botany of the Peninsula. He was born in 1840 and 

 entered the Bengal Medical Service in 1865, and was ap- 

 pointed Director of the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta in 1871 

 and in 1891, was also appointed Director of the Botanical 

 Survey of India. He retired in 1898, and died at San Remo 

 Feb. 13. His chief connection with the Malay Peninsula was 

 in his Botanical Researches. He visited Singapore once 

 and made an expedition to Gunong Pulai. He employed a 

 collector, Kunstler in collecting plants chiefly in the Thai- 

 ping Hills for some years. Kunstler 's very extensive col- 

 lections went to Calcutta where they were distributed a 

 number of duplicates being sent to the Herbarium of the 

 Singapore Botanic Gardens. Sir George King was also 

 the Author of many works dealing with the Malay Flora 

 including the Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula, 

 which is as yet unfinished and various volumes of the 

 Annals of the Botanic Gardens Calcutta, giving descrip- 

 tions and figures of the Anonaceae Figs. Artocarpi, Oaks 

 and chestnuts, Orchids and plants of other orders. His 

 chief agriculture work was connected with quinine of which 

 he improved and cheapened the method of production. It 

 was originally intended that he in collaboration with Sir 

 Joseph Hooker should publish the complete Flora of the 

 Malay Peninsula, but his death has prevented this from 

 being carried out. 



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