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Christie associated as a boy. He afterwards became the chronicler 

 of some of these worthies in papers contributed to the Glasgow 

 Eastern Botanical Society. His earlv association with his father 

 in natural history pursuits brought him into contact with local 

 botanists of a generation or two before his own time. Possessed 

 of a good memory, he was enabled, t-hrouo;h his earlv associations, 

 to add to his own experiences the accumulated lore of his pre- 

 decessors, and to speak of local changes in the topography, flora, 

 and fauna of tiie Glas^jow district with the authority of a 

 centenarian. From an earlv acje he had been accustomed to 

 arduous manual labour. At the time of his death, and for twenty 

 years preceding it, he acted as foreman moulder with Messrs. 

 Kesson & Campbell, of Parkhead. The nature of his duties left 

 him little time for his hobbies, but, with an iron frame and 

 inexhaustible enthusiasm, he was able to devote more time to his 

 favourite pursuits than many men with more leisure. 



In addition to being a good field-botanist he was well read in 

 botanical literature, and well informed in many branches of natural 

 science. His crenial nature won him manv friends. His was one 

 of those rare natures that never grow old, and his extensive 

 knowledge of local lore and everything out of doors, combined with 

 his pawky Scotch humour and endless flow of story and anecdote, 

 made him one of the most delightful companions by summer fields 

 or winter fires. Being of a retiring and modest disposition, he did 

 not come much before the Society, although he was known per- 

 sonally to many of the members. He was present at the excursion 

 to Queen's Park on 21st June, on which occasion he was in the 

 best of spirits, although carrying wHth him the distressing evidence 

 of recent severe trouble. On the following day what proved to 

 be a fatal seizure took place while he was superintending a casting. 

 He never fuUv regained consciousness, the end coming on the 8th 

 of July. Joseph Christie was a man apart, and his genial face and 

 well-known figure will be much missed among the field-naturalists 

 of the West of Scotland. 



Mr. William Purves, 9 Kelvingrove Street, was elected as an 

 Ordinary Member. 



Mr. C. Sherry exhibited some plants from the Botanic Gardens, 

 including Exacum affine, Balf . ; Limnohiurn bogoteiisis, Karst., the 

 American Frogbit ; Hypericum chinense, Linn. ; the fruit of the 



