Death Of Captain J. D.
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Mccomish
THE death occurred on June 3 of Cap tain James Doran McComish, who was well known in French Oceania, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island as a botanist. Captain McComish, over many years, made extensive collections of botanical specimens in those and other South Pacific Islands and supplied plants to Sydney Botanical Gardens, and to Kew Gardens, in England. He made some original discoveries, and a number of plants were named after him, at Kew He also took a keen interest in the history of the Pacific Islands, and wrote many articles in connection therewith. Captain McComish was a veteran of the South African War and World War I, and was 67 when he died.