t-'BRARY 
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Garden 
JOURNAL 
OF  THE 
ROYAL  AGRICULTURAL  SOCIETY 
OF  ENGLAND. 
Mr.  WILLIAM  CARRUTHERS,  Ph.D.,  F.R.S., 
F.L.S,,  F.G.S,,  &c. 
Introduction  by  ChaS.  Coltman  ROGERS, 
Chairman  of  the  Botanical  and  Zoological  Committee,  R.A.S.E. 
A VERY  unanimous  wish  has  been  expressed,  on  the  part  of 
many  intimately  concerned,  that  the  retirement  of  Mr. 
•^Carruthers  from  the  post  of  Consulting  Botanist  to  the  Society 
iy  should  not  pass  by  unnoticed.  His  long  connection  with 
the  Society,  the  services  he  has  rendered  to  the  members 
and  the  cause  for  which  he  has  so  successfully  laboured, 
' all  led  to  a ready  acceptance  of  the  Botanical  Committee’s 
.1  recommendation  to  the  Council  that  an  account  of  his  work 
should  be  put  on  record,  and  that  in  addition  to  this,  his 
^ photogi-aph  should  appear  in  the  current  number  of  this 
Journal  together  with  a memoir  of  his  career.  In  compliance 
with  the  opinions  thus  expressed,  the  subjoined  Memoirs 
have  been  submitted,  and  by  request  I preface  their  publica- 
y tion  with  a brief  introduction. 
/ Mr.  Carruthers  has  supplied  a resume  of  the  work  done 
> during  his  long  period  of  office,  and  matter  of  the  highest 
^ interest  will  be  found  in  this  narration.  It  very  clearly 
'^demonstrates  that  the  scientific  side,  so  emphatically  set  out 
^ in  the  Royal  Charter  among  the  primary  aims  and  objects 
of  this  Society,  has  not  been  lost  to  view. 
The  Society’s  Consulting  Botanist  has  not  only  to  patiently 
^^stil  knowledge  into  those  more  at  home  on  the  practical 
'^^an  on  the  scientific  side  of  agriculture,  but  has  to  compete 
31itellectually  with  professional  men  who  spend  their  whole 
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