12 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
His connection with the Glasgow Naturalists’ Literary Club 
dates from its formation on 8th December, 1888. He was one 
of the fourteen original members who had been asked by the 
founders to join the club and were present at its first meeting. 
During the period between 10th January, 1891, and 24th Novem- 
ber, 1894, he contributed three papers on “ Plant Names, Popular 
and Scientific,” ‘‘ Early English Botanists,” and ‘Two South 
American Naturalists,” The Hon. Secretary of the Club, Miss 
8. B. Robbie, writes as follows: ‘‘ The last-mentioned paper was 
a very striking one. We seemed to see more of the Professor’s 
inner mind that night than ever before.” 
Although not a member of the Andersonian Naturalists’ Society, 
his interest in its work was manifested by occasional attendance 
at the meetings, where he sometimes exhibited specimens and 
read papers. He was also frequently present at the’excursions, 
where he occasionally acted as leader. 
To meet the requirements of his own students, an enlarged 
edition of Hennedy’s Clydesdale Flora was edited and published 
by him a few years ago. It is perhaps to be regretted that the 
engagements of a busy life did not afford him more time for 
literary pursuits, for no one was better fitted than he to take up 
the work which Hennedy had begun, and extend it to those 
departments of cryptogamic botany which he himself had so 
successfully studied. 
While most of the scientific papers which Professor King has 
published have appeared in the Proceedings and Transactions of 
our own Society, he occasionally contributed short notes to the 
Annals of Scottish Natural History, of which his friend Professor 
Trail, Aberdeen, is joint-editor, He was also frequently applied 
to by the editor of the Scottish Farmer for assistance in replying 
to botanical queries. Various notes bearing his initials, and 
relating to questions connected with agricultural botany, have 
appeared in the pages of that journal. To the Ordnance Survey 
Gazetteer of Scotland he also contributed a long article on the 
botany of this country, which contains much valuable information. 
His connection with the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, to 
which reference has already been made, is of special interest in 
its relation to the closing period of his life. 
On Monday, 7th September, accompanied by one or two friends, 
