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founded a foundation which owed much to him through his 

 influence with the Duke of Montrose, then Chancellor of the 

 University, of whose house he was a cadet. One of the first 

 efforts of Graham in his new position was directed to the com- 

 pletion of a scheme that was making for the formation of a 

 Botanic Garden. In this he succeeded, and botanical teaching 

 in Glasgow was thus equipped in 1819. 



From this sphere in which he had initiated so much. Graham 

 came to Edinburgh in 1820 as Professor of Medicine and Botany 

 and was forced again to take up medical practice and clinical 

 teaching in the Hospital, and in consequence to interest himself 

 in the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians, of which he 

 became President all this, as in the case of his predecessors, in 

 addition to his botanical work. 



His first labour in relation to Botany was to transfer the 

 Botanic Garden which Hope had made to a new site that which 

 it now occupies. Nearly two years were required to carry out 

 the removal, to the success of which the skill of William McNab, 

 the Principal Gardener, contributed greatly. 



During the whole tenure of his offices Graham devoted 

 himself to the affairs of this Garden, and often in the very 

 practical way of supplying funds from his own resources to 

 supplement the inadequate grants obtained from Government. 

 It gave him the material for the description of many new 

 species which were figured in the Botanical Magazine and other 

 like periodicals. This systematic botanical work was that 

 which Graham cared for most, it was the backbone of his 

 teaching, and all of his scattered papers deal with this aspect of 

 the subject. 



In connection with his teaching Graham developed specially 

 the botanical excursion for the study of Field Botany, making 

 it an integral part of his courses, and in furtherance of its aims 

 travelling far through Scotland a business of a much more 

 arduous nature in days when railways and motors had not anni- 

 hilated distance and provided all the comforts of civilisation 

 within easy reach of every district Graham had intended to 

 publish a Flora of Scotland as the result of his practical study of 

 its plants, but it was uncompleted at the time of his death in 



