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a time the Society found it desirable to issue annual Proceedings 

 and Transactions ; and to these Dr. White contributed frequently 

 (in addition to the addresses and reports already referred to), 

 besides editing them. 



His published papers and notes are numerous, extending over 

 a wide field in Zoology and in Botany, and are scattered through 

 numerous journals, though a large proportion of them appeared in 

 those named above. We must restrict our notice here to some of 

 those relating to botanical subjects ; but it is proposed to give in 

 the Annals of Scottish Natural Histort/ as full an enumeration of at 

 least the more important papers as can be now obtained. His 

 earliest botanical contributions seem to be those in the Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinb., between 1866 and 1870, relating to flowering plants 

 and to mosses. His attention was afterwards chiefly directed to 

 the flowering plants, more especially to those of Perthshire, and 

 numerous communications to the Scottish Naturalist, the Proceedings 

 of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, and the Journal of 

 Botany bear witness to his acuteness in discriminating species and 

 varieties not formerly known to occur in Scotland. The British 

 species of Salix, and their numerous intermediates, were made by 

 him the subject of very minute and exhaustive study, the general 

 results of which were embodied in "A Eevision of British 

 Willows," read before the Linnean Society (of which he became a 

 Fellow in 1873) in June, 1889, and published in that Society's 

 Journal [Botany), xxvii. 333-457 ; while other papers more especially 

 confined to the Willows of the East of Scotland were published in 

 the Scottish journals. 



That he did not limit his attention to flowering plants is shown 

 by occasional papers on ferns, mosses, and fungi, and by frequent 

 references in some of the series of Berlceley and Broome's well- 

 known "Notices of British Fungi" to specimens of fungi, rare or 

 not previously found in Britain, forwarded by him. 



For several years he had been engaged in the preparation of a 

 Flora of Perthshire, and this led to a very careful investigation of 

 the plants of the county, and supplied material for "A Preliminary 

 List of the Fungi of Perthshire," and "A Preliminary List of the 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns of Perthshire," both of which were 

 published in the Scottish Naturalist during the years 1879-1882, 

 extending together to over eighty pages. The Flora would have 

 been published several years ago, but for Dr. White's efforts to 

 make it minutely accurate. Year after year he sought to clear up 

 points on which he felt that additional information was desirable, 

 and no season passed without some real progress being made in this 

 direction. It is fortunate that the Flora has been left by him in 

 such a state as to permit of its publication at an early date. 



Passionately fond of mountaineering and of active exercise, he 

 undertook excursions that involved long and exhausting tramps 

 over moor and hill, with frequent exposure to inclement weather. 

 For years he seemed not to feel fatigue; but latterly he suffered 

 from rheumatism, though even this did not put a stop to his 

 excursions. Ultimately his heart became affected, and for several 



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