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gations, he got under weigh the study of a Mendelian problem, and he 
published the first of his two papers 1 on seedling anatomy. 
He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a member of the 
British Ecological Society. 
But it was not only from the professional standpoint that Mr. Lee 
showed himself eminently likeable. He possessed an enthusiasm which 
was not merely youthful but based on both experience and reading for 
all sorts of reform, and especially for such developments as might bring 
biological considerations within the sphere of politics ; and certain dis¬ 
cussions—arguments—in which he bore his share are very pleasant 
memories. 
In the autumn of 1912 he was nominated for the chair of Botany in the 
Ahmedabad Institute of Science, India, and he only did not undertake those 
distant responsibilities because the medical officer reported him unsuited to 
the climate. The following autumn he joined the department of Agri¬ 
cultural Botany in the University of Leeds. 
Mr. Lee was a good ‘ shot and at Leeds he joined the Officers’ Training 
Corps of the University and thus found himself, when war broke out, in 
a position not only to volunteer but to be of immediate use. He spent 
August in helping with the organization of the O.T.C., which was thrown 
open to professional men in Leeds, and he had charge of the musketry. In 
the beginning of September he obtained a commission as second lieutenant 
in the 4th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. He became 
machine-gun officer, and by the end of the month was gazetted lieutenant. 
Already at the time of his death he had been specially marked for further 
promotion. 
In November, 1914, he married Miss H. S. Chambers, B.Sc., then 
Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Holloway College, to whom he had been 
engaged for some two years. It was a marriage which promised all the 
happiness of shared interests. 
On April 12, 1915, Mr. Lee was sent to the front. He was just 
29 years of age. 
He had hard work ; it interested him, and he was happy in it and as full 
of enthusiasm for his military duties as he had been for his botanical work. 
His men were devoted to him and his praise of them was high. 
His death was caused by a bullet which penetrated the parapet of the 
trench and went through his head. He was carried down to the dressing- 
station but was not conscious again, and died within two hours. 
It is striking to notice how the impression which Mr. Lee made 
on his brother officers and on his men coincided with that of his colleagues 
1 Observations on the Seedling Anatomy of certain Sympetalae : I, Tubiflorae. Ann. of Bot., 
1912, p. 727. Observations on the Seedling Anatomy of certain Sympetalae : II, Compositae. Ann. 
of Bot., 1914, p. 303. 
