sentences:  A short spell of active service on the frontier followed, after which he joined the Oriental Banking Corporation, later the Bank of Africa.After being transferred to Middelburg in the Cape, he developed an interest in the local plants and spent long hours dissecting and identifying wild flowers with the aid of the three volumes of "Flora Capensis" and Harvey's "Genera".However, it was not till 1888 when he became bank manager in Grahamstown, that his collecting took on a serious turn.