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year, gave the first of two lectures on " Some Isle of Purbeck 

 Plants." The second lecture was given on March 4, 1915, and 

 the two lectures appear in Vol. VII. of the Proceedings. On 

 January 6, 1916, he lectured on " The Ferns of Purbeck," and 

 was the conductor of a Botanical Excursion to Wareham and 

 Ridge on June 8 of the same year. In Vol. VII. his name, 

 together with that of Mr. R. V. Sherring, F.L.S., is prefixed to 

 the list of plants collected in the district during the season and 

 in Vol. VIII. Mr. Green's name stands alone in connection with 

 the corresponding list. On April 1, 1917, Mr. Green read a paper 

 on " Some Additions to the Purbeck Flora " and he was one of 

 the conductors of an Excursion to the Blue Lakes in the follow- 

 ing July. Workers at once so competent and so enthusiastic 

 are rare and his death was a grievous loss to the Botanical Section 

 and the Society generally. He bequeathed to the Society a 

 valuable Herbarium, a large number of photographs and lantern 

 slides and a collection of books. 



SIR WILLIAM DUFF GIBBON. 

 Died— March 19, 1919. 



Sir W. D. Gibbon spent more than fifty years of his long 

 and useful life in Ceylon where he held many important and 

 honourable public offices. He settled in Bournemouth in 1911 

 and at once began to interest himself in the life of the town. 

 He was associated with Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G. , in starting 

 a branch of the Royal Colonial Institute. Of this he was elected 

 Chairman and was also a Vice-President of the R.C.I. He was a 

 member of the local committee of the Y.M.C.A., an elder of St. 

 Andrew's Presbyterian Church, President of the Bournemouth 

 Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society and a member 

 of the council of the Bournemouth Literature and Art Association. 

 He joined the Natural Science Society in June, 1918. On March 

 5, 1918, he gave what was described as " An informal Talk on 

 Ceylon and its contribution to the Empire's Tea Table." 

 Although this was arranged by the Literature and Art Association, 

 it was held, by permission of the Council, in the room of the 

 Natural Science Society and was attended by many of its members. 

 Sir William Gibbon was both liked and respected by all, and they 

 were many, who knew him. 



