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was elected Fellow o£ the Linnean Society Dec. 2nd, 1875, of the 

 Royal Society in 1878, and was placed on the Council of that 

 Society in 1881, receiving also one of the Royal Medals. The 

 University of Glasgow conferred the degree of LL.D. on him ; he 

 was also General Secretary of the British Association at York, 

 and President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



Dr. Geohge Dickie, born in Aberdeen, November 23, 1812, 

 died July 15, 1882, also at Aberdeen. Educated in Aberdeen at 

 school and at Marischal College, where he graduated A.M. in 1830 ; 

 studied medicine in Aberdeen in 1831 and 1832, and in Edinburgh 

 in 1833 and 1834, and gained the Medal for a knowledge of Pa- 

 thology and Practice of Physic. In 1832 became M.R.C.S. of 

 London ; lectured on Botany in King's College, Old Aberdeen, 

 from 1839 to 1849, and also for shorter periods on Materia 

 Medica and on Natural History in that University. In 1842 

 received from the University the degree of M.D. In 1849 he was 

 appointed Professor of Natural History in Belfast, and had there 

 to teach zoology, geology, physical geography, and botany. In 

 I860 was appointed Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Aberdeen, and held the professorship till 1877, when he resigned 

 because of ill-health. 



In his earlier life he was a keen observer in the field, and ex- 

 plored the district around Aberdeen, adding several species (e. g. 

 Carex Jeporina, C. rupestris, and a number of Cryptogams) to 

 the British Flora, some of them new to Science. He had a very 

 severe illness in 1861, and w as thereafter unable to do much out- 

 door work, being more or less an invalid from bronchitis and 

 progressing deafness. 



His separate works were 'A Flora of Aberdeen' (1838), 'The 

 Botanist's Guide to the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincar- 

 dine ' (1860), and 'A Flora of Ulster' (1864)— in all which is 

 valuable information on the range in distribution and in altitude 

 of the plants of the districts treated of. He also wrote along 

 with Dr. McCosh ' Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation,' 

 dwelling on the evidences of design that can be discovered in the 

 Universe ; and he supplied information in the form of botanical 

 appendices to the works of certain Arctic travellers, and to Mac- 

 gillivray's ' Natural History of Deeside.' In scientific Magazines 

 his first paper appeared in 1837 ; and from that time onwards he 

 wrote in the 'Magazine of Zoology and Botany,' the ' London 

 Journal of Botany,' the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' the Reports and Transactions of the Edinburgh Bo- 

 tanical Society, the British-Association Reports, and the Journal 

 of the Linnean Society, as well as contributed information 

 acknowledged in Harvey's ' Phycologia Britannica,' Ralfs's 

 ' British Desmidieae,' Smith's ' British Diatomaceae,' &c. 



He also contributed numerous papers to the Philosophical 



