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importance; and also American and Scottish Depart- 

 ments, and a classified arrangement for the use of 

 students. The system followed in the general col- 

 lection was based on that of Linnaeus ; but the 

 writer adds that "it is proposed to have a small 

 arrangement illustrative of the method of Jussieu, 

 now much adopted in the Continental gardens." A 

 long list follows of the plants in the stoves, which 

 shows what an extensive collection had been already 

 formed. The first of the stove plants that is men- 

 tioned in the list is Strelitzia Regince, and it is of 

 some interest to learn further that this beautiful 

 exotic was tlie first plant that flowered in the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden. 



After twenty years it became desirable, owing to 

 the extension of the city, that another site should 

 be chosen. New Gardens were accordingly laid out 

 on the western bank of the Kelvin in the picturesque 

 situation which they still occupy, and these were 

 opened on the last day of April, 18^1:2. 



Hopkirk continued to be Vice-President of this 

 Institution till the end of 1830, Avhen he retired. 

 The proprietors had in 1819 voted a present of plate 

 to him of a hundred guineas value, in recognition 

 of his liberal donations o plants and his services 

 generally in forwarding the interests of the 

 Institution. At that time he begged that they 

 would delay the testimonial till the funds of the 

 Institution were in a better state. After he had 

 retired from office, however, they insisted that he 

 should accept the presentation, and he complied. 



In the second decade of the century, lithography 

 was comparatively a new art. Hopkirk began to 

 turn his attention to it about 1818, and his name is 

 the first identified with its introduction to Glasgow. 

 He was personally engaged for several years doing 

 lithographic work, till he had instructed others. 

 Peter Mackenzie, in his Reminiscences of Glasgotv, 

 writing of the year 1828, says that Hopkirk had 

 then become "one of the first lithographic writers 



