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MR. REGINALD FARRER, whose death was reported in the Times of November 19, was an extraordinarily enthusiastic horticulturist, possessing, in a high degree, a poetic and artistic temperament, an experienced and intrepid traveller, and an accomplished and versatile writer. In horticultural circles he will be remembered as an ardent collector and cultivator of alpine plants, which he knew as few know them. He had studied them on many occasions in their native haunts, and had cultivated them under ideal conditions in his garden at Ingleborough. Many new plants, some of them of great interest and beauty, have been discovered and introduced by him into our gardens, enriching them, and at the same time making a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the flora of China and Tibet. As a geographer also Farrer will be known to many. The award of the Gill memorial medal of the Royal Geographical Society early this year was a recognition of the useful work he had done for geography in his journeys on the Chinese border of Tibet. His lectures before the society on these journeys were published in the Geographical journal, vol. xlix., pp. 106–24, and vol. li, pp. 341–59.
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Reginald J. Farrer. Nature 106, 413–414 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106413b0
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