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Connemara, the Cumberlantl and Welsh mountains, or the 

 Swiss Alps. Professor Balfour was also the founder of the 

 Botanical Club and the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, 

 in both of which institutions he always took a most active 

 interest, and was till nearly the last a most regular 

 attender. Many were the happy days which the latter 

 club spent among the Breadalbane mountains in his 

 society, and much of the work done in searching for new 

 plants in new localities was due to his untiring energy 

 and perseverance. 



By personal effort and published manuals, he endeav- 

 oured to encourage the study of botany among all classes. 

 Of his different works on botany, some were iii tended 

 for university students, others for secondary and also for 

 primary schools. He was also a considerable contributor 

 to the Eoyal Society's Transactions. In our own, are many 

 of his original papers ; and he was editor for many years. 

 He also supplied the article " Botany " to the E7icyclopcedia 

 Britannica. Professor Balfour was for nearly thirty years 

 Dean of the Medical Faculty ; and for upwards of ten 

 years Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of 

 which he became a member in 1835. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1844, 

 and of the Ptoyal Society of London in 1856. The degree 

 of LL.D. was conferred on him by the Universities of St 

 Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. 



In the death of Mr Isaac Anderson-Henry the Society 

 has lost one of its most distinguished and industrious 

 members. 



Mr Anderson-Henry was a gentleman well known to 

 most of the members of this Society as a famous horticul- 

 turist and hybridiser. He died at Hay Lodge, Trinity, on 

 the 21st September last, at the ripe age of 85. He was 

 educated for the law, and for a number of years he 

 practised in Edinburgh as a Solicitor to the Supreme 

 Courts. Although well known as a judicious and able 

 man of business, ]Mr Henry never took very kindly to the 

 dry details of law, and as soon as circumstances permitted, 

 gladly renounced them. 



His fame as a horticulturist was made, however, while 



