1885.] OBITUARY. I99 



The Indian Forester for INIay must be interesting to Edinburgh 

 readers. The detailed and graphic account of the Japanese Court at 

 the late Forestry Exhibition, written by one of the able Indian 

 forest officers who studied its contents, deserves a prominent place 

 in this year's forestal literature. 



Mk. John Gkaxt has recently re-issued, at a cheap price, Ablett's 

 English Trees and Tree- Planting, noticed when it first appeared, 

 but with the addition of sixteen illustrations of famous historical 

 trees, reduced from Strutt's Sylva Britannica, the few remaining 

 copies of which are held by Mr. Grant. 



As foresters have an indirect interest in tanning, it may be useful 

 to note that in the Tanners' and Curriers Journal for May and 

 July are several interesting items regarding tanning barks. 



Obituary. 



J0H:N' COLQUHOUN", author of The Moor and the Loch, died at 

 Edinburgh on the 27th May, in his 80th year. He was the 

 son of the tenth baronet of Luss, and his mother was a daughter of 

 Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster. In his boyhood, spent by Loch Lomond 

 side, he acquired that zest for field sports and love of the creatures 

 living the wild life of the mountain-side and forest, which induced 

 him early to retire from the military profession to pursue the 

 study of such phases of Scottish nature, ultimately to result in his 

 book, now in its sixth edition, and as popular now as when issued 

 forty years ago. Mr. Colquhoun has left a family of four sons and 

 two daughters, both of whom have won their spurs in literature. 

 Indeed, the eldest daughter is Mrs. Walford the novelist. 



Mk. James Welsh, of Messrs. Dicksons & Co., nurserymen, 

 Edinburgh, died on the 18th of June at Erickstane, near Moffat, 

 whither he had gone to recruit his health. Mr. Welsh was a figure 

 in the Scottish arboricultural world. We shall miss his quiet, 

 suave manner, and quick business decision. 



