Dr John L. Paterso)i. 



He was a vegetarian, and in his jungle excursions his 

 favourite beverage was cold tea. He attained the age of 71, 

 and his funeral was attended by all the European officials 

 and a crowd of natives, showing the respect in which he was 

 held by all around him. A tablet to his memory has been 

 erected in the Botanical Gardens, under the superintendence 

 of his successor, Mr Trimen. 



Tn the catalogue of scientific papers printed by the Eoyal 

 Society, I find twenty-seven memoirs — five of them were 

 printed in the Transactions of the Entomological Society, the 

 rest chiefiy related to researches in Cryptogamic Botany. A 

 portrait, accompanied by a short sketch of Thwaites' career, 

 by Dr Masters, appeared in the Gardeners Chronicle, April 4, 

 1874. 



Jolin L. Paterson^ M.D., of Bahia, Brazil. By William 

 Craig, M.D., F.RC.E., F.R.S.E. 



John Ligertwood Paterson was the son of tlie Rev. 

 James Paterson, minister of the Secession Church, Midniar, 

 Aberdeenshire. He was born in 1820, and was the seventh 

 son of a family of nine. At a very early age he entered 

 the Grammar Scliool of Aberdeen, and during his fourth 

 and fifth sessions studied under Dr Melvin. From the 

 Grammar School be passed on to Marischal College, where, 

 at the close of his fourth session, he took the degree of M.A. . 

 with credit. He then entered the Faculty of Medicine, and 

 so greatly distinguished himself in anatomy that he was 

 afterwards chosen Demonstrator by Professor Moir. In 

 due time he took tlie degree of M.D. He next went to 

 London, and was admitted a member of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons. Having now obtained his diplomas, lie studied 

 for a time at tlie medical schools of Vienna and Paris, and 

 returned in the spring of 1842 to Aberdeen. His eldest 

 brother, who bad been several years practising in Brazil, 

 obtained for him an opening, Tn a brief time Dr Paterson 

 succeeded this brotlier in Bahia, where he continued 

 for nearly a quarter of a century. During this time 

 one deadly epidemic of cholera and tliree of yeHow 

 fever raged in Bahia, when his duties were of the most 

 arduous nature. For liis eminent services on two of 



