8 The Scottish Naturalist. 



By those who had the pleasure of personal acquaintance with 

 him, Dr. Dickie will be remembered as a most kind and obliging 

 friend, on whose kindness and goodwill full reliance could at all 

 times be placed. The state of his health, and the deafness that 

 troubled him in the later years of his life, almost precluded inter- 

 views with strangers for some years; but he enjoyed seeing his 

 friends, and retained his interest in the progress of science, and 

 especially of Botany, to the end of his life. 



The Alga collected during the " Challenger " expedition, as 

 well as other collections received at Kew, were submitted to his 

 examination, and only a very short time before his death he com- 

 pleted the investigation of one of these collections, and reported 

 on it. As a professor, he was very successful in gaining and in 

 retaining the confidence, respect, and esteem of those whom he 

 taught. Those students that showed a love of science always 

 found him a true friend, ready to advance their wishes to the 

 utmost of his power, whether by affording them facilities for con- 

 tinuing their studies, by aiding them to overcome the difficulties 

 in their way, or by obtaining for them situations of a kind such as 

 to give the opportunities required for future success. He con- 

 tinued to correspond with and encourage not a few of his former 

 students after they had left the University, and had entered on the 

 active duties of life. 



To him the writer, in common w r ith others, owes a debt of grati- 

 tude for his instructions, his example, and his unfailing kindness, 

 and for recommendations and assistance by which in great measure 

 his course in life has been shaped. Though he is gone from 

 among us, his memory will be cherished by many of those whom 

 he taught, and most by those that knew him most intimately. 



