THE LATE PROFESSOR THOMAS KING 3 



narcissoides, Ph. ScJiizosteimna and Stemmatum formed 

 new genera at the instance of Philippi. He was the first 

 also to find Errazurizia glandulifera, Ph., a curious 

 leguminous plant with " long rat-tail spikes of flowers of a 

 peculiar purple and yellow " with an " incense -like " scent. 

 Philippi named it in honour of President Errazuriz, and 

 King adds so characteristic again " I was better pleased 

 than if he had named it for myself." 



Early in 1873 ne returned to Scotland, with such 

 restored health that he determined to remain at home. In 

 1873 ar >d 1874 we find him studying Botany in the 

 University of Glasgow, under the late Professor Dickson ; 

 and again in 1878-79 he attended the class of Practical 

 Botany under Professor Bayley Balfour. For a time he was 

 engaged in teaching in various schools in the West of Scot- 

 land, and set himself to qualify as a certificated teacher in 

 Science. In 1877 he was appointed Lecturer on Botany in 

 the Eastern Mechanics Institute, Glasgow; and in 1878 he 

 was appointed to a similar position in the Glasgow 

 Mechanics Institute, now incorporated in the Glasgow 

 and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1883 he 

 attended lectures on Botany and instruction in laboratory 

 work at South Kensington, and in the same year he obtained 

 the Certificate of the Department of Science and Art as a 

 teacher of Botany. In 1889 he was elected Professor of 

 Botany in Anderson's College Medical School, and in I 890 

 Professor of Botany in the Glasgow Veterinary College. 

 He continued to discharge the duties of these various offices 

 till the date of his death. 



Professor King was an active member of the Geological, 

 the Eastern Botanical, the Natural History, and the Micro- 

 scopical Societies of Glasgow. He was a Fellow of the 

 Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, of which he was Honorary 

 Treasurer from the year 1883. He has left no permanent 

 work in the literature of science, if we except an enlarged 

 edition of Kennedy's "Clydesdale Flora," which he published, 

 and an article on the " Botany of Scotland," which he wrote 

 for the "Ordnance Survey Gazetteer of Scotland." But he 

 frequently contributed valuable papers to the various 

 societies of which he was a member. 



