Etjobobentiron ^ocietp ^otesl. 
Champion, Lieut.-Colonel John George (1815 P-1854). See Dict. Nat. 
Biogr. 
Delavay, Pere Jean Marie. A French missionary, bom at Abondance, 
Haute Savoie in 1838. Joined French Foreign Missions, and in 1867 was sent 
to China. Died at Yunnansen, on 30th December, 1895. 
Farges, Abbe Paul. A French missionary. StiU collecting in Szechuan in 
1898. See Bull. Mus. d’hist. nat. 1896, 279. Stated to be now dead. 
Farrer, Captain. H.E.I.C. Brought R. FARRERiE, named in compliment 
to Mrs. Farrer, (his wife ?), from China in ship “OrweU.” Resident in Blackheath 
in or about 1838. See Sweet’s Flower Garden, Series II., t. 95. 
Ford, Charles. I.S.O. Formerly Superintendent Botanical and Forestry 
Department, Hong Kong, for about thirty years. Genus Fordia named after 
him. Believed to be still living. 
Forrest, George. Formerly of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
A collector in China since 1904. 
Fortune, Robert. (1813-1880). Traveller and botanist. See Dict. Nat. 
Biogr. 
Henry, Augustine. Now Professor of Forestry, Royal College of Science 
for Ireland, Dublin. 
Longe, Lieut.-Colonel F. B., of Holly Lodge, Thorpe, Norwich. 
Poole, Joseph. A gardener. Went to China to collect for Samuel Brookes 
in “ Lady Melville,” an Indiaman, in 1818. 
Tate. A nurseryman, of Sloane Square, London. 
Veitch. The firm of James Veitch & Son, Ltd., Nurserymen, of Chelsea. 
Founded near Exeter in 1808 ; removed to Chelsea in 1853 ; ceased business in 
1915. Their Rhododendrons were raised in their nursery at Coombe Wood, 
Kingston-on-Thames, on land the property of the late Duke of Cambridge and 
his descendants. 
Vilmorin, Maurice L. de, of Les Barres, Nogent sur Vernisson, Loiret. 
Ward, Frank Kingdon. Son of the late Professor Marshall Ward, of 
Cambridge. Collected in China for Bees, Ltd. Now serving in Mesopotamian 
Field Force. 
Williams, John Charles, of Caerhays Castle, Cornwall. 
Wilson, Ernest Henry. Now of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, LhS.A. 
Collected for Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. 
C. C. E. 
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