Dec, 1904.| BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 47 
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 
Thursday, December 8, 1904. 
Professor I, BayLEy Baurour, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
A. C. M. BELL, Esq., W.S., East Morningside House, was 
proposed as a Resident Fellow of the Society by ALEx. 
Cowan, Esq., and seconded by Professor BAYLEY BaLFrour, 
F.R.S. 
Mr. Wm. B. Boyp read an obituary notice of the late 
Dr. A. P. AirkeN. The paper dealt chiefly with the career 
of Dr. Aitken, his connection with the Botanical Society, 
and his various publications in separate departments of 
Science. 
AN OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE LATE DR. ANDREW PEEBLES 
AITKEN, D.Sc. By WitiiAm B. Boyp. 
Dr. Andrew Peebles Aitken, Professor of Chemistry in the 
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College. and Lecturer on Agricultural 
Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, died at his 
residence, 38 Garscube Terrace, Murrayfield, on Sunday, 
17th April 1904. He was a native of Edinburgh, and was 
educated at its university, where he graduated as Master 
of Arts in 1867, as Bachelor of Science in the department of 
Physical Science in 1871, and as Doctor of Science in the 
department of Chemistry in 1873. 
After leaving the university he studied at Heidelberg, and 
on his return to this country was appointed assistant to 
Professor Crum Brown and Demonstrator of Practical 
Chemistry in Edinburgh University. In 1875 Dr. Aitken 
was appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Royal (Dick) 
Veterinary College—a post which he continued to occupy 
up to his death. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Botanical Society of 
Edinburgh on the 12th January 1871, and Foreign Secretary 
on 11th December 1884. On the 13th November he read a 
paper on ‘Astragalus mollissimus,’ and, on the 10th 
