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charge in a singular degree, and he equally secured and
the confidence of those under whom he served.
retained
" Mr. Lyttelton wishes as Secretary of State for the Colonies to
bear witness at once to his public services and to the character
and qualities which inspired those services : and he would put on
record in this letter, a copy of which will be sent to the High
Commissioner for the Federated Malayan States, his sense of the
lasting gratitude which is due to the name and the memory of
Sir Hugh Low from all who dwell in or are concerned with the
British possessions and Protectorates in the Malay Indies.
" I am, Madam, your obedient servant,
(Signed) C. P. Lucas."
The Linnean Society cannot fail to deplore the loss of one who
was so great an ornament to its ranks, and whose companionship
in the past would have been still more emphatically cherished, had
not his serene unconsciousness of his own distinguished capacity
kept him ever in the background. [T. E. E. S.]
JoHis^ George Ltjehma]s'n^ was boi-n in 1843, and settled in
Victoria in 1862. Pive years later he became secretary to Sir
Perdinand von Mueller, and remained m the department of
Grovernment Botany till shortly before his death. In this post
he made the preliminary examination of the large accessions from
various parts of Australia \Ahich were received at Melbourne, and
were described by P. von Mueller, during the last eighteen years
of his life, hereby acquiriug a critical knowledge of the large
genera Eucalyptus and Acacia. In 1896, after the death of his
chief, he was appointed Curator of the National Herbarium, and
subsequently Government Botanist. His published works were
confined to short papers in the local societies' publications,
one, reprinted from the issues of the Pield Naturalists' Club of
Victoria, is entitled " Eeliquise Muellerianse," Melbourne, 1896, a
small pamphlet of a few pages. Confining his attention to the
work of his department, he has left no printed record to testify to
his acquirements, beyond the acknowledgment printed by his chief
in the preface to the ' Key to the System of Victorian Plants ' in
1885. Mr. Luehmann joined our Society on 16th April, 1885,
and died on 18th November, 1904, aged sixty-one. [B. D. J.]
Eobeet McLachlax, P.E.S., P.L.S., P.Z.S., *S:c., died at bis
residence, Westview, Clarendon Eoad, Lewisham, on the 23rd
May, 1904, in the 68th year of his age.
He was born at Upper East Smithfield on the 10th April, 1837,
and was the son of Hugh McLachlan of Glasgow, who in early
life settled in London. The early years of E. McLachlan's life
were largely spent in the neighbourhood of Hainault Forest, near
which his father had a small farm, and there he first acquired
his love for Natural Historv. When he was about 16 he lost