Dr George Dickie. 3 



Notes of Mosses and Hepatic*, collected by Mr Robert Brown on 

 the North- West Coast of America. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., -vol. ix., 

 1868, pp. 355-358. 



Notes of Algae collected on the Coast of North-West America, by- 

 Mr R. Brown.— rra»-s. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. ix., 1868, pp. 465- 

 467. 



Notice of Grimniia contorta, Schimper, a new British Moss. — 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. x., 1870, pp. 19, 20. 



Notes of Diatomacece from Danish Greenland, collected by Robert 

 Brown. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. x., 1870, pp. 65-67. 



Remarks on some Deep-Sea Dredgings, transmitted by Captain 

 William Chunmo. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. x., 1870, p. 103. 



Notes on Range in Depth of Marine Algae. — Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin., vol. X., 1870, pp. 155-160. 



Notes on the Distribution of Algae. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 

 vol. xi., 1873, pp. 97-100. 



Notice of a Diatomaceoiis Deposit. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. 

 xi., 1873, p. 394. 



On a Diatomaceous Deposit in the District of Cromar, Aberdeen- 

 shire. — Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. xii., 1876. 



Notice by Professor Trail of Aberdeen. 



(Read at the December meeting, but inserted here for convenience.) 



Dr George Dickie was born in Aberdeen on the 2ord 

 November 1813. He graduated A.M. in Marischal College 

 in 1830, after the usual course of study. He thereafter spent 

 tw^o years in the study of medicine in the Aberdeen Medical 

 School, and also a session in Edinburgh, where he gained the 

 medal for pathology and practice of physic in 1833, and in 

 1834 he became M.R.C.S. of London. 



He originally intended to enter the naval medical service, 

 but abandoned the intention, and began medical practice in 

 Aberdeen. His tastes lay very strongly in the direction of 

 natural science, especially botany ; and in 1839 he was 

 appointed Lecturer on Botany in King's College, Aberdeen. 

 He also gave lectures on materia medica and natural history, 

 and was librarian. The honorary degree of M.D. was con- 

 ferred on him by King's College in 1842, He resigned his 

 appointment in Aberdeen (receiving the tlianks of the Senate 

 of the University " for the excellent manner in which he had 

 discharged the duties of these offices ") on his appointment in 

 1849 to the newly-founded chair of Natural History in 



