THE LATE DR. ALEX. MORRISON. 
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Street, and afterwards in Rokebv Road, Subiaco ; but at the 
request of the Agricultural Department ho continued to perform 
the work of consulting botanist, somewhat neglecting his medical 
work, until Dr. Steward was appointed Botanist and Vegetable 
Pathologist about a year later. 
Dr. Morrison named the botanical specimens at the Museum 
gratuitously from the year 1906 to the time he left the State. 
He visited the Stirling Range at the instance of the Government 
and made a large collection of plants in that part. He contri- 
buted several papers to the W.A. Natural History Society and 
the Natural History and Science Society of W.A., of which lie 
was a member, and, from February, 1914, an honorary member. 
He gave two Museum lectures, one in 1908 on " The Adaptation 
of Plants to their Environment,” which was noticed and highly 
commended in Nature, the other in 1910 on ” Vegetation and 
Rainfall." He deprecated the wholesale destruction of forests, 
and advocated forest and botanical reserves. He very carefully 
revised for the official Year Book of W.A. an account of the 
vegetation of the State, with a list of the extra-tropical W.A. 
plants a work of 44 pages, originally prepared by Baron von 
Mueller in 1894-3, ai '<l printed in 1904 in the “ Natural History- 
Notes of 1 \ .A.” in the Year Book. This lie revised again in 1912 
for the \\ .A. Museum, but want of funds has prevented its being 
printed. He was a painstaking worker, and exceedingly cautious , 
he was reticent, retiring, kindly in his disposition, and scrupulously 
honest in all his dealings. He was all his life a collector of botanical 
specimens, and when leaving Perth in 1012 he complained that 
they alone occupied fifty cases. He received the appointment 
of Assistant Botanist to Professor Ewart, at the Melbourne 
Herbarium. When there lie was not in good health, never having 
recovered from a severe attack of influenza that he had in Perth, 
and the illness developed into tubercle in the throat ; but, in spite 
of his ill-healfh, he remained at his work until nine weeks before 
his death, which took place at the Heatherton Sanatorium 
Cheltenham, on 7th December, 191.’,. His remains were interred 
in the Kew Cemetery. He left his herbarium to the Edinburgh 
University, his medical and botanical books to the Tasmanian 
University, and the residue of his estate to the Melbourne Uni- 
versity. 
