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follow law as a profession. While a child he spent the summers at 

 Berwick-on-Tweed with his mother, from whom he inherited a love 

 of seaweeds and fossils. She died when he was seven years old ; but 

 he retained his love for seaweeds. Becoming early acquainted 

 with Mr. K. M. Holmes, he was assisted by him in his earlier 

 difficulties, and brought into relations with other algologists. In 

 1889 he i)ublished his first imjjortant paper, the admirable 'List of 

 the Marine Algae of Berwick-on-1'weed,' extending to 171 pages of 

 the " Berwickshire Naturalists' Club's Transactions," and illustrated 

 by 5 plates. This was followed in 1891 by a ' Hand-List of the Algae 

 of the Clyde Sea Area,' which appeared in the " Journal of Botany " ; 

 to which in subsequent years he contributed short papers on new 

 and critical species, several belonging to new genera characterised 

 by him, while other papers on new forms were issued in the 

 '• Phycological Memoirs," in the "Annals of Botany," and in 

 " Grevillea." In 1902 was published in separate form a " Catalogue 

 of the British Marine Algae," which had appeared as a supplement 

 to the " Journal of Botany." Its title does not adequately express 

 its importance, as it embodies his views on their classification and 

 gives a very full statement of their local distribution. He formed a 

 very large herbarium of British seaweeds, a good exotic collection, 

 and a great number of microscopic preparations. There is reason 

 to hope that these collections will be acquired for the British Museum 

 Herbarium. A biographical notice by A. and E. S. Gepp, with 

 a portrait, is given in the " Journal of Botany " for November 

 1907. 



During the years 1905 and 1906 the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh lost several Fellows, of whom obituary notices are given 

 in the addresses of the President, Professor Balfour. Among those 

 Fellows the following were students of the flora of Scotland : — 



Patrick Neill Fraser. — One of the oldest Fellows, he took an 

 active interest in the work of the Society, and devoted especial 

 attention to the Ferns, of which he possessed a very fine collection of 

 living plants and a large herbarium, now in the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden. His collection of herbaceous plants was 

 also exceptionally fine. 



Rev. James Farquharson, D.D., Minister of the parish of Selkirk. 

 A brief notice of him appeared in this journal in 1906 (p. 188); 

 but to it a little may be added. In 1876 he published a " List of 

 the Flowering Plants and Ferns observed in Selkirkshire," and also a 

 paper " On the Leafing of Certain Trees, etc.," being a record of 

 observations made in 1861-76 on the leafing and flowering of the 

 Scots plane, the Norway plane, and the common lime. The effects 

 of winters 1878-81 on gardens and shrubberies of Selkirk formed 

 the subject of another essay. In 1883 he found Carex divisa on 



