GEORGE A. WALKER-ARNOTT.! 
Grorce A. WALKER-ARNOTT, Professor of Botany in the 
University at Glasgow, died on the 17th of June last, in 
the seventieth year of his age. He was born in Edinburgh, 
February 6, 1799, educated at the celebrated high school of 
that city, and at the university, where he took high rank as a 
scholar, especially in the mathematics, — publishing two 
papers in Tilloch’s ‘¢ Philosophical Magazine” in 1817 and 
1818, while yet a student in arts, — and then, turning to law 
studies, he was called to the bar as a member of the faculty of 
advocates in the year 1821. He hardly entered, however, upon 
the duties of his profession, his taste for natural history hav- 
ing been early developed under the lectures of Professor Jame- 
son and of Mr. Stewart, — the latter a well-known teacher of 
botany at that time, and his patrimonial estate of Arlary in 
Kinros-shire sufficing for his support, so that he could devote 
himself to botany, as he did, with unsurpassed ardor and 
success. His earliest botanical paper, upon some Brazilian 
Mosses, was written in France, and published in a journal 
at Paris in 1823. In 1826 and 1827 he contributed to the 
“Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal” a lively narrative 
of a botanical tour to the south of France and the Pyrenees. 
He resided for some time at Montpellier and in Paris, examin- 
ing the principal herbaria there, also that of De Candolle 
at Geneva, and in 1828 the herbaria at St. Petersburg. In 
1831 he married and established himself with his collections 
at Arlary, where he resided until, in 1845, he accepted the 
professorship of botany in the University of Glasgow. It was 
during these fourteen years that the vast amount of scientific 
work he was able to accomplish was mainly done. He wrote 
the article “ Botany ”’ in the seventh edition of the “ Encyclo- 
1 American Journal of Science and Arts, 2 ser., xlvii. 140. (1869.) 
