The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



NO. 49] 1904 [JANUARY 



REV. JOHN STEVENSON, LL.D. 



OBITUARY. 



THE Rev. John Stevenson was born at Coupar Angus, on 

 the borders of Forfarshire and Perthshire, in 1836, his 

 father being the Rev. Patrick James Stevenson, clergyman 

 of the parish for upwards of fifty-two years. In 1850 he 

 went to the University of St. Andrews ; and, after passing 

 through the courses of study in Arts and Theology, he was, 

 in 1859 (along with his brother Patrick, now minister of 

 Inverarity in Forfarshire) licensed as a preacher in the 

 Established Church of Scotland. Very soon he became 

 Assistant in the West Church in Aberdeen, and in 1861 

 was presented to the church of Millbrex in Aberdeenshire, 

 in 1865 to the parish of Dun near Montrose, and in 1873 

 to Glamis near Forfar, not far from his birthplace. 



About the year 1870 interest re-awoke among Scottish 

 botanists in the great group of Fungi, which for a consider- 

 able time had received little careful attention except from one 

 or two. The " Scottish Naturalist " almost coincided in its 

 commencement with this new movement, and did much to 

 aid it, the earlier volumes containing valuable lists, by the 

 Rev. Dr. Keith and others, of the numerous novelties 

 discovered. Great encouragement and assistance was given 

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