Noy. 1907. | THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 361 
Introductory Address as Vice-President in 1876. Transactions, vol. 
xiil., 1879, p. 1. 
“On the Weather of the Winter of 1878-79.” Appendix cix. Trans- 
actions, vol. xi., 1879. 
“On Low Night Temperatures in Relation to Slight Inequalities of 
Surface.” Transactions, vol. xiii., 1879, p. 48. 
“ List of Plants for Observing the Influence of the Sea on Vegetation.” 
Transactions, vol. xiii., 1879 ; Appendix xii. 
“Remarks on the Recent Weather.” Transactions, vol. xiv., 1883 ; 
Appendix xiii. 
Introductory Address as Vice-President, 1881. Transactions, vol. 
xiv., 1883, p. 263. 
“Various Remarks.” Transactions, vol xiv., 1883; Appendix xxi., 
7., CV. 
“The Climate of the Hungarian Mountains in its Relation to the 
Hungarian Oak.” Transactions, vol. xiv., 1883 ; Appendix ex. 
“Obituary Notice of Sir Robert Christison, Bart.” Transactions, 
vol. xiv., 1883. 
Mostly all these communications, as will be seen, deal 
with the relations of his pet study, meteorology, to the 
science of botany. Dr. Buchan was a man of a singularly 
unaffected and humble disposition. He was most considerate 
of others, and always ready to place at their disposal his vast 
and varied stores of knowledge. His enthusiastic devotion 
to his work was unabated to the end, when he was attacked 
by pneumonia and died at the residence of his only son, 
Dr. A. Hill Buchan, after a few days’ illness, on 15th May 
1907, exactly seven years after his wife, Sarah, daughter 
of David Ritchie, Musselburgh, to whom he was married 
in 1864. 
Sir JOSEPH FAYRER, Bart., K.C.S.I., LL.D., M.D. 
Sir Joseph Fayrer, the son of a naval officer, was born at 
Plymouth on 6th December 1824. His first desire was to be 
an engineer, and then he thought of the navy, and actually 
went to sea for a time. Ultimately, however, he resolved to 
follow the profession of medicine, in which he was destined 
to earn so much distiuction. He studied at the Charing 
Cross Medical School, London, and graduated M.R.C.S. in 
1847. Almost immediately he received a commission in the 
Royal Navy. He had as a fellow-student Professor Huxley, 
and it was on the advice of the former that the latter 
accepted a commission in the Navy, and was appointed to the 
“ Rattlesnake,” which had been commissioned to go on an ex- 
