NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. Ixiii 



Mr. Schulze's special study was the microscope considered as 

 an optical instrument. He was thus deeply interested in all 

 its improvements, as well as in the newest methods of micro- 

 scopical research, and was usually the first to introduce new 

 lenses and optical appliances to the notice of Glasgow micro- 

 scopists. To his great enthusiasm was added a faculty of lucid 

 explanation which enabled him readily to impart information 

 regarding the most minute details of optical science ; while 

 the value of his opinion and criticism was greatly appreciated 

 at home and abroad. He possessed the highest skill in micro- 

 photography ; and examples of his work in this department, 

 almost unsurpassed as affording perfect representations of 

 some of the most minute test-objects, have been exhibited 

 at meetings of our own and other local Societies. He also 

 made numerous substantial contributions to microscopical 

 science in the form of papers to scientific journals and the 

 Transactions of various learned Societies with which he was 

 connected. 



Mr. Schulze was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and one of the 

 most active office-bearers of the recently instituted Scottish 

 Microscopical Society. During the early years of his residence 

 in this city he became connected with the Glasgow Society of 

 Field Naturalists, and since the amalgamation of that Society 

 with our own in 1879, he has continued to take an active interest 

 in the progress of our work. 



Although to many of us Mr. Schulze was best known as a 

 man of science, those who were privileged with his private 

 acquaintance have borne testimony to his singular modesty 

 and unobtrusiveness, as well as to the geniality of his disposi- 

 tion, which endeared him to a wide cii'cle of friends. He has 

 left a widow and six children to mourn his loss. 



The Chairman read a letter which he had received from Mr. 

 George Murray, F.L.S., Corresponding Member, Secretary of 

 the Committee for the Exploration of the Marine Flora of the 

 West of Scotland, requesting that the aims of the Committee 

 should be made known to the Members of the Society with 

 the view of inviting their co-operation. Mr. Murray stated 

 that the Marine Flora of Western Scotland is less known than 

 that of any other region of the British Coasts, and that although 

 collections have been made by Greville, Walker- Am ott. Lands- 

 borough, and others, the record is by no means exhaustive. 

 Outside and north of the Clyde area, the work of the late 

 Captain Carmichael, of Appin, affords practically all the infor- 

 mation on record, beyond a few casual specimens. The aim 

 of the Committee is to organise work on the algse of this 



