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BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 



SESSIONS XLVII.-XLVIII. 



^th Novemhcr 1882.— Hugh Cleghorn, M.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Vice-Presideot, iu the Chair. 



The Chairman made the foUowiag iutruductory remarks : — 



In the unavoidable absence of Professor Bayley Balfour, it 

 has unexpectedly fallen on me to preside on this occasion. 

 It is my duty to allude briefly to the life and labours of three 

 distinguished members of our Society who have lately passed 

 away — viz., Dr Dickie, honorary member; Dr Parnell, resi- 

 dent member ; Dr Thwaites, foreign member. The two first 

 were personally known to me ; the third I never met, but for 

 many years I had much friendly as well as ofhcial correspond- 

 ence with him in the East. All three were earnest workers in 

 different departments of botany, and all were men of singularly 

 retiring disposition and habits. 



George Dickie, 31 D. 



George Dickie, M.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Botany 

 in the University of Aberdeen, died 15th July, aged 69. He 

 was elected a non-resident Fellow of this Society on April 12, 

 1838, being then a Lecturer on Botany in Aberdeen. Further 

 particulars of his life and labours are given below from the 

 pen of his successor in the University Chair, Professor Trail. 

 All that I now attempt is to give a chronological list of his 

 botanical writings, many of which appeared in our own 

 Transactions. Fifty-four of his memoirs are recorded in the 



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