THE LATE GEORGE WILLIAM TRAILL 



THE LATE GEORGE WILLIAM TRAILL 



WAS the son of William Traill of Westness and Woodvvick 

 in Orkney, and younger brother of Dr. William Traill, of 

 whom a brief obituary notice is contained in the " Scottish 

 Naturalist" of April 1887. The love of Nature was strong 

 in both, but while the elder brother preferred zoological 

 studies the younger gave his chief attention to the seaweeds 

 of the East Coast and North of Scotland. Born in 1836, he 

 became a clerk in the head office of the Standard Life 

 Assurance Company, and remained forty -two years in that 

 employment. Though not of robust health, he did much to 

 add to our knowledge of the Algae of the shores on both 

 sides of the Firth of Forth, and of the Orkney Islands, and 

 published the results of his investigations in papers of which 

 a list is subjoined. In these, the amount of information 

 about the evironment and economy is very noteworthy. He 

 also wrote " An Elementary Treatise on Quartz and Opal." 

 He died at Joppa, near Edinburgh, on 7th April 1897, 

 leaving a widow, two sons, and one daughter. 



LIST OF PAPERS. 



'The Algae of the Firth of Forth ' ( " Edin. Phys. Soc. Proc.," 1880, 

 pp. 171-189; 1881, pp. 96-97; 1883, pp. 188-190, 306). 



'An Alphabetical List of the Parasitic Algae of the Firth of Forth' 

 ("Proc. Roy. Dublin Soc.," 1883, pp. 286-297). 



"A Monograph of the Algae of the Firth of Forth," 410, 18 pages, 

 u-ith herbarium specimens of the rarer species : Edinburgh, 

 1885. 



'The Marine Algae of Joppa' ("Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 1886, pp. 

 395-402). 



'The Marine Algae of Elie ' ("Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 1888, pp. 



'On the Fructification of Sphacelaria radicans ' ("Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin.," 1888, pp. 77-78). 



'Notes on New and Rare Algae 1 ("Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 1888, 



PP- 312-313). 

 ' The Marine Algae of the Dunbar Coast ' ( " Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 



1890, pp. 274-300). 



