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natural science, however, that his talents found free and congenial 
scope. He had a critical knowledge of the flowering-plants of the 
British Isles, and had visited many parts of the country, from 
Orkney and Shetland in the north, to the Channel Islands in the 
south, for the purpose of collecting specimens. He was also 
interested in various departments of cryptogamic botany, 
especially mycology, and devoted a good deal of attention to the 
life-history of the Uredinez, Peronosporez, and other groups 
of parasitic microfungi. He was, moreover, an accomplished 
geologist; and some years ago, during the absence through 
illness of the lecturer on geology in Anderson’s College, Glasgow, 
the class was carried on successfully by Mr. Turner for several 
months until the close of the session. 
In pursuit of his favourite studies, Mr. Turner had long been a 
member of several scientific societies. In 1877, his name appears 
in the list of members of the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists. 
On 29th April, 1879, when that institution was merged in the 
Natural History Society of Glasgow, he became a member of the 
latter. Since then he has taken a very prominent share in all 
departments of the Society’s work, and how greatly his services in 
that respect were appreciated has been attested by the frequency 
of his appointment as an office-bearer. In 1880, and again in 
1883, he was elected a member of council; in 1884, a vice- 
president ; in 1887, a member of council; and in 1889, a vice- 
president—all these appointments being respectively for the full 
term of three years. 
In 1883 he acted as Summer Secretary of the omcee The 
popularity of his appointment was at once shown by a largely- 
increased interest in the excursions and meetings, the attendance 
at which numbered more than double the average of previous 
sessions. Any who accompanied him to these excursions will 
remember how greatly the zest of such pleasant country rambles 
was due to his genial and humorous presence, his keen and 
intelligent enthusiasm as a botanist, and his readiness at all times 
to impart information or render assistance. Under his flowing 
pen, the reports on excursions, as embodied in the minutes and 
published in the local newspapers, became vivid pictures of field 
and woodland scenery, of which an example may be given, An 
excursion to Vaut and Castlecary Glens, which took place on 2 
