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on some Eare Plants picked in the Neighbourliood of Edin- 

 burgh," by Dr Balfour and Mr Evans. In 1842 Evans entered 

 upon his duties as clerk at the Old Experimental Gardens, 

 now forming the eastern half of the Botanic Garden, in 

 which the herbarium and rock garden are situated; and 

 in 1843 he was elected assistant-secretary and curator to 

 this Society. The manuscript attendance-book, kept in 

 our archives, shows how Mr Evans was assisted in the 

 work of distributing plants in the herbarium during 

 1844-45 by Charles Babington and others. 



Mr Evans became curator of the Caledonian Horti- 

 cultural Society Gardens in ]848, on the late James 

 Macnab vacating the post for the position in which 

 he died. In 1857 the ground occupied by the Experi- 

 mental Garden was taken over by Government, to be 

 added to the Botanic Garden ; and Evans rented the farm 

 of Tynefield, in East Lothian. He subsequently became 

 estate manager to the late Sir George Clerk, Bart., of 

 Penicuik, in 1864 ; and from 1872 held the same position 

 on the estate of Macbie Hill, Peeblesshire. He latterly 

 returned to Edinburgh, occupying much of his time in 

 arranging his herbarium, wliich comprised a wide range 

 of species of British plants, both phanerogams and crypto- 

 gams. He died there on 5th May 1885, after a brief 

 illness of ten days, the result of a paralytic shock. Mr 

 Evans discovered several species new to the Edinburgh 

 district, which have been duly recorded in Balfour 

 and Sadler's Flora Edinensis. 



Mr James Welsh, of the firm of Dicksons <fe Co., 

 nurserymen, Edinburgh, died on the 18tli June 1885, in 

 the fifty-second year of his age. Mr Welsh forms almost 

 the last of a string of noted horticultural veterans on our 

 roll of Fellows, who well represented their special side of 

 our science. He was proposed by the late William Gorrie 

 in 1872. If he did not contribute to our Transactions, 

 he wrote elsewhere somewhat extensively on arboricul- 

 tural subjects, such as the larch disease, and the growth of 

 tree stems even in a prostrate condition. But, beyond all, 

 he used his commercial position in promoting botanical 

 science in a very marked manner. He introduced many 



