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Director of Agriculture of the F. M. S., Mr. J. B. Carru- 
tliers, for the excellent services, which he had rendered in 
that capacity to the Planting Industry of the Malay Pen- 
insula. 
This proposition is seconded by Mr. Parkinson and 
carried unanimously. 
XVII. The Secretary is instructed to convene the* 
next Meeting on April 25tli, 1909,. at Kuala Lumpur. 
The Meeting then terminates at 1-45 pan. 
H. 0. E. Zaoharias, 
Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
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Sir George King. 
It is with the deepest regret we have to record the 
death of Sir George King, well-known here for his work 
on the Botany of the Peninsula. He was born in 1840 and 
entered the Bengal Medical Service in 1865, and was ap- 
pointed Director of the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta in 1871 
and in 1891, was also appointed Director of the Botanical 
Survey of India. He retired in 1898, and died at San Remo 
Feb. 13. His chief connection with the Malay Peninsula was 
in his Botanical Researches. He visited Singapore once 
and made an expedition to Gunong Pulai. He employed a 
collector, Kunstler in collecting plants chiefly in the Thai- 
ping Hills for some years. Kunstler ’s very extensive col- 
lections went to Calcutta where they were distributed a 
number of duplicates being sent to the Herbarium of the 
Singapore Botanic Gardens. Sir George King was also 
the Author of many works dealing with the Malay Flora 
including the Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula, 
which is as yet unfinished and various volumes of the 
Annals of the Botanic Gardens Calcutta, giving descrip- 
tions and figures of the Anonaceae Figs, Artocarpi , Oaks 
and chestnuts, Orchids and plants of other orders. His 
chief agriculture work was connected with quinine of which 
he improved and cheapened the method of production. It 
was originally intended that he in collaboration with Sir 
Joseph Hooker should publish the complete Flora of the 
Malay Peninsula, but his death has prevented this from 
being carried out. 
Ed. 
