Abstract
Miss I. M. ROPER, who died at a nursing home in Bristol on June 8, in her seventieth year, was known widely for her devoted work as a field botanist, and as a contributor of well selected dried specimens to both the British Botanical Exchange Clubs. She had been honorary secretary and librarian of the Bristol Naturalists' Society for nineteen years, and was the only woman to become president (1913-16); also the first woman to serve on the Council of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeo logical Society. Her presidential address on mistletoe showed wide research on the host trees of that parasite; and her second annual address was appropriately entitled “Some Historical Associations of Flowers”. Her power of organisation was remark able. In 1920 she joined the Somersetshire Archaeo logical and Natural History Society, and was also a useful committee member of the Botanical Section.
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