iv Obituary.—Miss Ethet Sargant , F.L.S. 
use it is. The subscription to a new laboratory is wrung from his pockets 
only by demonstrating that research pays in Germany’ (p. 6). 
Miss Sargant possessed the gift of style ; the clearness and vigour of 
her exposition were no less characteristic than the accuracy of her observa¬ 
tion. This was no doubt due in a large degree to her literary tastes ; her 
brother writes : ‘ Always a great reader, her retentive memory gave her a 
wide and accurate knowledge of English Literature.’ The writer remembers 
her saying that a love of books was the first thing necessary for a student— 
a true view, in his opinion, though one not popular among the modern 
apostles of science. 
Miss Sargant was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in December, 
1904; she was the first woman to serve on the Council. She was also the 
first of her sex to preside over a Section of the British Association, and 
proved herself a most capable and business-like President. At Cambridge 
she was elected an Honorary Fellow of Girton College in 1913 and also 
succeeded Mrs. Sidgwick as President of the Federation of University 
Women; towards the close of her life she devoted much time and labour to 
compiling the Register of University Women for War Work. 
Personally Miss Sargant was a woman of a generous nature, who will 
be long remembered for her many acts of kindness. Her masculine vigour 
of intellect was associated with a truly feminine character of the highest 
type. 
D. H. S. 
List of Miss Sargant’s Papers. 
Some Details of the First Nuclear Division in the Pollen Mother-cells of Lilium Martagon , L. 
Journ. R. Micr. Soc., 1895, pp. 283-7. 
Direct Nuclear Division in the Embryo-sac of Lilium Martagon. Ann. of Bot, vol. x, 1896, 
pp. 107-8. 
The Formation of the Sexual Nuclei in Lilium Martagon. I. Oogenesis. Ann. of Bot., vol. x, 
1896, pp. 445-77- 
Ditto. II. Spermatogenesis. Ann. of Bot., vol. xi, 1897, pp. 187-224. 
On the Presence of two Vermiform Nuclei in the Fertilised Embryo-sac of Lilium Martagon. 
Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. lxv, 1899, pp. 163-5. 
A New Type of Transition from Stem to Root in the Vascular System of Seedlings. Ann. of Bot., 
vol. xiv, 1900, pp. 633-8. 
Recent Work on the Results of Fertilization in Angiosperms. Ann. of Bot., vol. xiv, 1900, 
pp. 689-712. 
Women and Original Research. Frances Mary Buss Schools Jubilee Magazine, November, 1900, 
pp. 1-8. 
