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water flora of Perthshire and Forfarshire ; and he obtained results 

 of the utmost value, several additions being made by him to the 

 Scottish fresh-water flowering plants. Two of his discoveries were 

 named in his honour — Potamogeton Sturrockii, and Ghara fragilis 

 var. Stnrrockii. He also collected and investigated the very diffi- 

 cult genus Rubies, and other groups with critical species. 



About ten years ago he endeavoured to save two of his pupils 

 from being drowned ; and in consequence he suffered severely 

 from a rheumatic attack. He seems never to have fully re- 

 covered from this. After an illness of three weeks, he died on 

 13th March, 1886, leaving a widow and seven children. 



He was a most useful member of the Perthshire Society of 

 Natural Science for several years ; and the Society at its meeting 

 on 1st April recorded its sense of the great loss it has sustained 

 in his death. The loss to the progress of botanical investigation 

 in Scotland is not a small one; for there was reason to expect valu- 

 able results had Mr. Sturrock's life been spared. 



Mrs. Sturrock has generously presented his herbarium to the 

 P. S. N. S. Museum, in which its contents give it a special value. 



George Ogilvie Forbes, M.D., for seventeen years Professor 

 of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen, died on the 25th 

 June at his residence of Boyndie, near Banff. He resigned his 

 professorship in 1877 because of ill-health, which became confirmed, 

 and rendered him unable to continue the scientific pursuits to 

 which he devoted his earlier years. We shall give an account of 

 his life and work in our next issue. 



