12 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



His connection with the Glasgow Naturalists' Literary Club 

 dates from its formation on 8th December, 1888. He was one 

 of the fourteen original members who had been asked bj the 

 founders to join the club and were present at its first meeting. 

 During the period between 10th January, 1891, and 24th Novem- 

 ber, 1894, he contributed three papers on " Plant Names, Popular 

 and Scientific," " Early English Botanists," and " Two South 

 American Naturalists," The Hon. Secretary of the Club, Miss 

 S. B. Robbie, writes as follows : " The last-mentioned paper was 

 a very striking one. We seemed to see more of the Professor's 

 inner mind that night than ever before." 



Although not a member of the Andersonian Naturalists' Society, 

 his interest in its work was manifested by occasional attendance 

 at the meetings, where he sometimes exhibited specimens and 

 read papers. He was also frequently present at the excursions, 

 where he occasionally acted as leader. 



To meet the requirements of his own students, an enlarged 

 edition of Hennedy's Clydesdale Flora was edited and published 

 by him a few years ago. It is perhaps to be regretted that the 

 engagements of a busy life did not afford him more time for 

 literary pursuits, for no one was better fitted than he to take up 

 the work which Hennedy had begun, and extend it to those 

 departments of cryptogamic botany which he himself had so 

 successfully studied. 



While most of the scientific papers which Professor King has 

 published have appeared in the Proceedings and Transactions of 

 our own Society, he occasionally contributed short notes to the 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History, of which his friend Professor 

 Trail, Aberdeen, is joint-editor. He was also frequently applied 

 to by the editor of the Scottish Farmer for assistance in replying 

 to botanical queries. Various notes bearing his initials, and 

 relating to questions connected with agricultural botany, have 

 appeared in the pages of that journal. To the Ordnance Survey 

 Gazetteer of Scotland he also contributed a long article on the 

 botany of this country, which contains much valuable information. 



His connection with the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, to 

 which reference has already been made, is of special interest in 

 its relation to the closing period of his life. 



On Monday, 7th September, accompanied by one or two friendsj 



