360 THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. [Sess. Lxxit. 
death. He held strongly that these observations were not 
only of high scientific interest but also of considerable 
practical utility, and worth all the cost of being continued. 
The practical value of his meteorological studies was well 
illustrated in some striking papers on “The Relations of 
Weather and Health,” written in conjunction with Sir 
Arthur Mitchell. In 1899 Bartholomew published an 
“ Atlas of Pictorial Meteorology,” compiled by Dr. Buchan 
with the assistance of Dr. A. J. Herbertson, and this repre- 
sents very distinctively the particular form of meteorological 
research and the method of recording and depicting it with 
which his name is associated. He was an honorary LL D. 
of Glasgow University, and it is not easy to understand why 
his own Alma Mater did not recognise his worth. He was 
also a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edin- 
burgh, and from 1878 to 1906 he acted as Curator of the 
Library of the latter. He was also an Honorary Fellow 
of many British and foreign learned societies. In 1876 
he was awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane prize, and in 1893 
the Gunning Prize, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. And 
in 1902 he was the first to receive the Symons medal of the 
Royal Meteorological Society of London. In 1864 he became 
a Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and in 1871 
he filled the office of President, giving a Presidential Address 
on “Climate and Weather in Relation to the Distribution 
of Plants.” For twenty-five years he was a frequent con- 
tributor to the Society’s proceedings, as will be seen by the 
following list :—- 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
BY Dr. ALEXANDER BUCHAN, 1858-1883. 
“List of Plants observed in the neighbourhood of Blackford, Perth- 
shire.” Transactions, vol. v., 1858, p. 162. 
“ Notice of a Tree found in a Peat Moss in the Island of Shapinshay, 
Orkney.” Transactions, vol. viii., 1866, p. 399. 
Presidential Address—“ Climate and Weather in Relation to the 
Distribution of Plants.” Transactions, vol. xi., 1873, p. 261. 
“On the Practical Application of Meteorology to the Improvement of 
Climate.” Transactions, vol. xi., 1873, p. 85. 
“On Seedling Ash Trees Destroyed by Frost.” Transactions, vol. xii., 
1876, p. 49. 
“The Bearing of Meteorological Records on a Supposed Change of 
Climate in Scotland.” Transactions, vol. xii., 1876, p. 280. 
“On the Flowering of Spring Plants.” Transactions, vol. xii., 1876, 
p. 441. 
