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till Lis death the moving spirit of the Stirling Natural 

 History and Archaeological Society, besides carrying on an 

 extensive correspondence with other than district scientists. 

 Mr Croall made a special study of the fungi and lichens, 

 and was an expert in mosses, as is evidenced by the fre- 

 quency M'ith which his name is mentioned in Dr Braith- 

 waite's British Moss Flora, now in course of publication. 



Mr Croall collected a valuable herbarium; the specimens 

 illustrating the district in which he latterly resided he 

 bequeathed to the Stirling Natural Plistory and Archaeo- 

 logical Society, of which he was long president. He also 

 left a garden of wild flowers, gathered in various parts, 

 some of them not to be found elsewhere in Scotland. 



Alexander Croall died at Stirling on the 19th May 1885, 

 after a long illness, having also, like the Earl of Selkirk, 

 attained seventy-six years. 



Besides the sets of the plants of Braemar, both flowering 

 and cryptogamic, prepared at the request of the Queen and 

 Prince Albert, a considerable number of other sets were 

 prepared, mostly for public herbaria ; and, in all, the 

 specimens are well selected and carefully prepared. 



The British Sea-Weeds : Nature Frinted, undertaken in 

 conjunction with Mr Johnstone, was iu four large 

 Svo vols. 



The late "William Wilson Evans was for many years 

 an acting office-bearer of the Botanical Society at a time 

 when the distribution of specimens was a prominent part 

 of its operations, and his name thus became wide 

 spread. He was till lately an occasional attendant at our 

 meetings, Mr Evans was born at Dysart, Fifeshire, on 

 1st January 1820, He early developed as a boy a love for 

 plants and flowers, and received the training of a practical 

 gardener. His first distinction came when in the gardens 

 at Mortonhall, in 1840, in the shape of the Caledonian 

 Horticultural Society's medal for a hortus siccus of native 

 plants. In 1841 Mr Evans, gardener, Caledonian Horti- 

 cultural Society Gardens, W'as elected an associate of our 

 Society; and in 1842, he contributed "Notes on Preserving 

 the Colour of Plants intended for the Herbarium" (see 

 Trans., vol, i.); and in 1846 there were given " Observations 



