Prof. E. Barnes

Abstract

PROF. EDWARD BARNES, professor of chemistry at the Madras Christian College, died suddenly at the end of May 1941 at the early age of forty-nine. During the past twenty years Barnes had developed a passion for botany and utilized every opportunity for the pursuit of his hobby. He spent most of his holidays making extensive tours in the hills of South India, and even during a stay of a few days in Ceylon, when returning from leave in England, he managed to find a new species of Arisæma. Assisted by his wife, he made a close study of the vegetation in the vicinity of his camps, and this assiduous research led to the discovery of a number of new species of herbaceous plants, all of which were described in either the Kew Bulletin or the “Icones Plantarum”.