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practised as an assistant in Yorkshire before settling down 
in his native town of Leith, where he acquired a large practice. 
In 1868 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. 
A practitioner of the old school, he was known by everyone 
with whom he came in contact as a modest, courtly, polished, 
. and kind gentleman—a type of man whose memory will 
linger long in the hearts of his townsmen and others. He 
died 28th February 1906. 
JAMES FARQUHARSON.—In the Reverend James Farquharson, 
D.D., Minister of the parish of Selkirk, who died 25th April 
1906, the Society has lost a keen botanist. In the matter of 
the subjects which are germane to the aims of the Society, 
Dr. Farquharson’s work was of no mean character. <A zealous 
field botanist, he published in 1876 his “ List of the Flowering 
Plants and Ferns observed in Selkirkshire,” and a good list it 
is of plants, all but three collected by himself. 
The growth of plants in relation to meteorological conditions 
was a subject that occupied his attention, and he published, in 
1876, a paper “ On the Leafing of certain Trees, ete,” which is, 
in fact, a record of the relative dates of leafing and flowering 
trom 1861-1876 of three trees—the Scots plane, the Norway 
maple, and the lime-tree. He showed how the Scots plane 
is the hardier of the two maples observed, and is less influenced 
by climate, and that both of the maples come into active 
growth before the lime-tree. 
In the same line of work was his record of the effects of 
the winter from 1878 to 1881 upon gardens and shrubberies 
in the neighbourhood of Selkirk. 
Dr. Farquharson frequently attended the meetings of the 
Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, and he became its President 
in 1882. At the meeting at Holy Island in 1883 he found 
Carex divisa on the Island, the first record of its occurrence. 
But perhaps the botanical work by which he is best known 
is that in connection with the “hained ground ” of the Duke 
of Buccleuch at Bowhill. From the year 1829, Howebothom, 
an area of some 300 acres, a portion of old Ettrick Forest, and 
occupying the southern portion of the height upon which 
Bowhill stands, was hained, 7.¢., preserved from the intrusion 
of sheep and cattle, by the Duke of Buccleuch, with the two- 
fold object of increasing the picturesqueness of the surround- 
