262 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Dr. Paul Howard Maegillivray. Though it is so many years 

 since Dr. P. H. Macgillivray emigrated from his native land that 

 his name will probably be familiar to few of those now interested in 

 the natural history of Scotland, it would be unfitting that we should 

 pass unnoticed the death of one who, even while a student, published 

 a local Scottish Flora. He was the (only surviving) son of Dr. 

 William Macgillivray, the eminent Professor of Natural History in 

 the University of Marischal College in Aberdeen, who, though best 

 known as an ornithologist, wrote numerous excellent works on 

 several other branches of natural science, and in his scientific views 

 more nearly approached those that now prevail than did all save a 

 very few of his contemporaries. P. H. Macgillivray was born in 

 1834, and he received his education in Marischal College, where he 

 took the degree of M.A. after a distinguished course as a student. 

 He had intended to devote himself to a scientific career ; but the 

 death of his father while he was still a student in Arts compelled 

 him to turn to Medicine as a profession. Yet in 1853 he published 

 " A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing in the 

 Neighbourhood of Aberdeen," a duodecimo of viii. and 44 pages. 

 The district treated of extends over an area of about twenty-four 

 miles from north to south, and sixteen from east to west, and shows 

 a very considerable diversity of surface. The " Catalogue " was 

 preceded by Dr. Dickie's " Flora Aberdonensis " ; and probably the 

 author was aided in its preparation considerably by his father, who 

 had studied the botany of the district with some care. But, after 

 such aid has been allowed for, it is very creditable to one who was 

 under twenty years at the date of its publication ; and it gave pro- 

 mise of good results had circumstances permitted him to devote 

 himself entirely to scientific pursuits. This, however, as already 

 said, he was unable to do, as he had to devote himself wholly to the 

 medical profession for a livelihood during a number of years. About 

 1855 he went to the colony of Victoria, where he at first practised 

 in \Villiamstown. He obtained the appointment of surgeon to the 

 Bendigo Hospital in 1857. , He died in Bendigo on gth July 1895, 

 of erysipelas, at the age of sixty-one. 



He had a high reputation in Victoria as a surgeon and physician. 

 He found time also to resume work in Natural Science, and con- 

 tributed largely to Sir F. M'Coy's " Prodromus of the Zoology of 

 Victoria." He devoted himself especially to the study of the 

 Polyzoa, both recent and fossil, of Australia, describing and figuring 

 many new species. At the time of his death he had almost com- 

 pleted a large work on the " Polyzoa of Victoria," to be published by 

 the Royal Society of Victoria. In 1889 the University of Aberdeen 

 conferred on him the degree of LL.D., in recognition of his merits. 



Dr. Hugh F. C. Cleghorn, of Stravithie, Fifeshire, though a 

 native of Madras, may be claimed as a Scottish botanist, as he 



