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take advantage of the facilities offered for original research. The 
results of these extremely important works were published in the 
Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, Teysmannia, and other 
Journals. The “Annales” were founded by Scheffer, who published 
the first volume, and thence forward carried on by Dr. Treub. 
Besides his vast administration work he found time, too, to 
publish many important papers on his own special studies. 
In organizing the Scientific Department of Agriculture he visited 
many of the other botanical establishments of the East, and on 
several occasions visited the Singapore Botanic Gardens. In the 
course of one of these investigations in Manila he contracted a severe 
illness from which it appears he never really recovered, and a little 
more than a year ago it was found necessary for him to retire from 
his post, first to Egypt and then to the South of France, where he 
died on October 3rd, at the age of fifty-eight, after a service of nearly 
30 years in Java. 
He will be deeply missed by many who knew him, not only as a 
most able administrator and agriculturist, but also as a kind and 
helpful friend, full of encouragement and sympathy for humbler 
workers : — Ed. 
Dr. W. Burck. 
We have also to record with regret the death of Dr. Burck who 
was formerly attached to the Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg. He 
was born in 1848 and was well-known from his studies in the 
Dipterocarpece and Sapotaceae. He was particularly interested in the 
cultivation of Guttapercha and for the study of their product visited 
the Highlands of Sumatra in search of plants. He collected a large 
number and started the Tjepetir and Guttapercha plantations, where 
Dichopsis gutta and other species are cultivated in a large scale. 
Later he was put in charge of the Government coffee plantations, 
and retired about eight years ago to Leyden where he devoted 
himself to Botanical science. — Ed. 
PERSONAL 
Mr. F. G. Spring, of the Aberdeen and North of Scotland College 
of Agriculture, Aberdeen University, has arrived and assumed duties 
as Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, and Superintendent 
Government Plantations, F.M.S., vice Mr. J. W. Campbell, resigned. 
Mr. Spring holds the National Diploma in Agriculture and the 
University Diploma. 
Mr. W. L. Wood, late of the Kew staff, has arrived and assumed 
duties as Superintendent of Government Plantations, Perak. Mr. 
Wood, after leaving Kew was for some months assisting Dr. Henry in 
his work on British Forestry. 
