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His superior literary training and skill gave him an advantage over 

 the majority of writers in the presentation of scientific subjects, and he 

 began to write at an early age. From 1846 to 1848 he published seven- 

 teen articles in the London Phytologist, dealing generally with the 

 discovery of interesting cases of the distribution of plants in Scotland, 

 rare or abnormal forms, and the functions of peculiar organs. Also 

 during his pre-Canadian career he published as many as twenty-three 

 papers in the proceedings or transactions of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh out of a total of thirty-eight contributions, some of which 

 were large monographs of families or orders. To the same period belong 

 a 2^fiper in the proceedings of the Dundee Naturalists' Association in 

 1848, a paper in the Zoologist in 1847, one in the Naturalist in 1851, 

 one in Henfry's Botanical Gazette in 1849, one in the Annals of Natural 

 History in 1854, and another in 1858, in the Journal of Microscopy in 

 1856 and 1857, and a British Association report in 1854. Also to this 

 period belong his first two books alread}' referred to. 



To his five years at Kingston belong the Annals of the Botanical 

 Society of Canada, a paper in the New York Horticulturist, an address 

 in the Canadian Agriculturist, an article on Aphis avenae in the Canadian 

 Naturalist, and five papers in the transactions of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh. 



To his thirty-two years in Halifax are to be credited ten papers 

 in the transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, five in the 

 Canadian Naturalist, three in the Chemical News, one in the Botanical 

 Centralblatt, one in the Canadian Eecord of Science, five in the transac- 

 tions of the Eoyal Society of Canada, and about twenty in the proceedings 

 and transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science. He was also 

 a frequent contributor to the public press on all subjects of local or 

 special interest, as well as to such literarj^ magazines as " Chambers's 

 Edinburgh Journal." He edited and rewrote a portion of one of the 

 editions of " Chambers's Information for the People." But while his 

 published works indicate extraordinary activity and are valuable contri- 

 butions to scientific knowledge, his unpublished work is greater and 

 will place him among the few men who have done much to stimulate 

 the scientific development of Canada during his time. 



Although a retiring worker far removed from the great centres of 

 scientific endowments for research, he has, nevertheless, had many recog- 

 nitions of his eminent ability. The University of Giessen, Germany, 

 conferred on him the degree of Ph.D.; McGill University the degree of 

 LL.D. He was made a fellow of the Botanical Society and the Eoyal 

 Physical Society of Edinburgh, and of the Institute of Chemistry of Great 

 Britain, an honorary member of the Edinburgh Geological and of the 

 Scottish Arboricultural Societies, a corresponding member of the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society of London, and of the Society of the Natural 



