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Christie associated asa boy. He afterwards became the chronicler 
of some of these worthies in papers contributed to the Glasgow 
Eastern Botanical Society. His early association with his father 
in natural history pursuits brought him into contact with local 
botanists of a generation or two before his own time. Possessed 
of a good memory, he was enabled, through his early associations, 
to add to his own experiences the accumulated lore of his pre- 
decessors, and to speak of local changes in the topography, flora, 
and fauna of the Glasgow district with the authority of a 
centenarian. From an early age he had been accustomed to 
arduous manual labour. At the time of his death, and for twenty 
years preceding it, he acted as foreman moulder with Messrs. 
Kesson & Campbell, of Parkhead. The nature of his duties left 
him little time for his hobbies, but, with an iron frame and 
inexhaustible enthusiasm, he was able to devote more time to his 
favourite pursuits than many men with more leisure. 
In addition to being a good field-botanist he was well read in 
botanical literature, and well informed in many branches of natural 
science. His genial nature won him many friends. His was one 
of those rare natures that never grow old, and his extensive 
knowledge of local lore and everything out of doors, combined with 
his pawky Scotch humour and endless flow of story and anecdote, 
made him one of the most delightful companions by summer fields 
or winter fires. Being of a retiring and modest disposition, he did 
not come much before the Society, although he was known per- 
sonally to many of the members. He was present at the excursion 
to Queen’s Park on 21st June, on which occasion he was in the 
best of spirits, although carrying with him the distressing evidence 
of recent severe trouble. On the following day what proved to 
be a fatal seizure took place while he was superintending a casting. 
He never fully regained consciousness, the end coming on the 8th 
of July. Joseph Christie was a man apart, and his genial face and 
well-known figure will be much missed among the field-naturalists 
of the West of Scotland. 
Mr. William Purves, 9 Kelvingrove Street, was elected as an 
Ordinary Member. 
Mr. C. Sherry exhibited some plants from the Botanic Gardens, 
including Exacum affine, Balf.; Limnobiwm bogotensis, Karst., the 
American Frogbit; Hypericum chinense, Linn. ; the fruit of the 
