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character as a soldier and in civil life the following quotations 

 speak eloquently. 



His Commanding Officer wrote to his parents: " In losing 

 your son the Army has suffered enormously, as his previous 

 knowledge in civil life made him particularly able in all the duties 

 of field company work. I have never met a man in whom I would 

 place more confidence, for not only had he a vast experience ir 

 engineering matters of all kinds, but he was conscientious to a 

 degree, and seemed to be without, fear absolutely. I cannot do 

 him justice in mere words." 



Professor F. C. Lea, writing in the Birmingham University 

 Magazine says : — " As a student he not only had an accurate 

 knowledge of all branches of engineering, but w 7 as also extremely 

 anxious to make some contribution to existing knowledge; as a 

 "teacher he was most conscientious, and thought no trouble too 

 great if only he could assist students ; as a colleague he was 

 always anxious to do all in his power for the well-being of the 

 P°oartment and the University. When he left us we knew 

 would face the horrors of Gal.lipoli or of shell-strewn 

 1 : we did know that whenever duty called he would not 



shirk or be afraid, and in his life and in his death our confidence 

 was justified." 



Such a case as that of Lieutenant Chadwick enables us to 

 realise at what a cost the long deferred victory has at last been 

 won. The whole of the Society sympathises with the parents, 

 both, of them members, who have suffered such a loss and w r e are 

 all proud that the rolls of the Society should have borne, if only 

 for a few months, the name of Percival M. Chadwick. 



CHARLES BAYLIS GREEN. 



Died— October 6, 1918. 



Mr. Green was for many years on the staff of the Railway 

 Clearing House, Euston Square. He occupied his spare time in 

 the cultivation of some of the attractive varieties of British ferns. 

 He worked for some years in close association with the late 

 Charles T. Druery, F.L.S., the distinguished pteridologist, who 

 gave Green's name as the authority for a plumose sub-variety of 

 Polystichum aculeatum. In 1902 his interest in general field botany 

 was excited on becoming a member of the Acton Natural History 

 Society and for its district of Middlesex he made many records 

 and photographs of important plants. His opportunities as a 

 collector were much enlarged when he retired on a pension in 

 1910 to live at Swanage. He proved an energetic and thorough 

 worker, searching all parts in and around the Isle of Purbeck. 

 His quick eyesight and painstaking habits resulted in the record- 

 ing of new localities for most plants known there as well as in 

 the addition of a number of rarities. He joined the Bourne- 

 mouth Natural Science Society in 191-i and, on December 8 in that 



