The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 40] 1901 [OCTOBER 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



REV. GEORGE M'CONACHIE, M.A., died early in May 1901, as 

 minister of the parish of Rerrick in Kirkcudbrightshire, where he 

 had been settled since 1877. During this time he devoted study to 

 the plants of the district, especially to the lower cryptogams, and 

 contributed papers on them and on subjects of historical interest to 

 the "Transactions of the Dumfriesshire Natural History Society." 

 He was a native of Glenrinnes in Banffshire, and passed through 

 the curricula of arts (graduating in 1867 with honours in the 

 mathematical sciences) and of theology in the University of 

 Aberdeen. 



JOHN SIM, died on 24th June 1901 at the age of 77. Trained 

 as a gardener, he became a farmer, and continued to be so for a 

 number of years, first at Whitestripes, a few miles north of Aberdeen, 

 and afterwards at Gateside in Strachan, where he was one of the 

 pioneers in growing strawberries as a farm crop, now an important 

 industry on Deeside. In later life, with the aid of his sons, he took 

 up business as a florist, at first in Banchory and afterwards near Stone- 

 haven. He had a strong love of field-botany, and studied the 

 plants of the various localities in which he resided with great 

 assiduity and success. He contributed papers to the " Transactions 

 of the Aberdeen Natural History Society," and to the local press. 

 One on the ' Botany of Scotston Moor ' was an excellent example of 

 a local florula. His eldest son Thomas has been in the Forestry 

 Department in South Africa for a number of years, and has written 

 monographs on the Ferns of South Africa. 

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