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in this vast and excellent work, but the botanist has to be grateful 
for the advantage of having such comprehensive descriptions of the 
plants of the world which is being gradually issued under Professor 
Engler’s supervision. 
Perhaps members would collect good examples of the British 
var. strigosum, &c., so that we may submit them to Dr. Fedde in 
order to clear up the doubt of their occurrence in Britain, or 
whether their omission by Dr. Fedde is due to an oversight on the 
part of the monographer. 
OBITUARY. 
The year 1909 has dealt very lightly with us, the only botanist 
of eminence whose loss we have to deplore is that of Sir George 
King, K.C.I.F., F.R.S., LL.D., born at Peterhead, April 12th, 
1840, died Feb. 12th, 1909, at San Remo. Had charge of the 
Calcutta Botanical Garden in 1871 ; in 1891 appointed Director of 
the Botanical Survey of India. Founded the Annals of the Royal 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta. In 1899 was President of Section K. 
at the Dover Meeting of the British Association, when he delivered 
an address on ‘ The History of Indian Botany,’ of considerable 
value but curiously containing no reference to the pioneers Charles 
and Daniel Du Bois, whose large herbarium, now at Oxford, of 
Indian plants collected circa 1690 — 1700 has been overlooked by 
all workers at the flora of that great country. See ‘ Card. Chron.’ 
and ‘ Journ. Bot.’ p. 122. 
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO REPORT, 1908. 
Geranium Robertianum, L., var. modestum (Jord.). West 
Monkton, Somerset. — E. S. Marshall. “ I think that the refer- 
ence must be to purpureum, which has dark anthers. G. modestum 
occurs in profusion over three separate areas in Cornwall, all near 
the sea. There are no intermediates between it and Robertianum. 
It has a rose-coloured corolla just half the width of G. Robertianum 
mixed with it; corolla is more irregular, petals narrower and not 
overlapping, anthers bright yellow, not red, peduncles short, thick, 
and densely glandular-hairy, carpels blunt above, covered with 
raised lines and dots. I have tabulated the dififerences after ex- 
amining many hundreds of the living plants at each locality, and 
