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personal acquaintance feel for themselves the loss of a lady of a 

 gracious personality, while, in common with others, they sym- 

 pathise with our universally esteemed Hon. Secretary in his 

 bereavement. 



GEORGE ROGERS MACDOUGALL. 



Died— December 25, 1917. 

 Although Mr. MacDougall joined the Society so recently as 1916' 

 he took a keen interest in its proceedings and was a most generous 

 benefactor. He was a Greenock man and had lived for many- 

 years in New York, where he occupied a leading position in the 

 sugar trade, retaining, however, his British nationality. He was 

 much interested in literature, art and science, and one of his chief 

 recreations was the study of trees. When he retired from business 

 and settled in Bournemouth he continued his interest in trees 

 under the very favourable conditions existing in this neighbour- 

 hood. A few months before his death he made a generous offer to* 

 Sir Daniel Morris to bear the cost of bringing out a " Guide to 

 the Trees and Shrubs in the Bournemouth Gardens," the property 

 in the book to be vested in the Natural Science Society. This 

 work will be a companion volume to "The Natural History of 

 Bournemouth and District." The estimated cost of production, 

 with illustrations and detailed plans, being ^160, Mr. MacDougall 

 sent a cheque for that amount to Sir Daniel Morris. He also lent 

 to the Society a valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities, and„ 

 further, bequeathed, subject to the life-interest of two legatees, 

 the sum of ^"2,000 as a nucleus of a fund for establishing a 

 Museum. 



