Nov. 1909.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 51 
Among the deceased non-Resident Fellows, I should refer 
to the late Mr. THomAS SoUTHWELL of Norwich, a Fellow of 
the Zoological Society of London, whose death occurred 
recently at the advanced age of seventy-nine. He was for 
many years the Secretary and twice the President of the 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. He became a 
non-Resident Fellow of this Society so long ago as July 
1853, and he was an amateur naturalist of the best type, 
his careful and painstaking work being an example even to 
his professional brethren. A banker by profession, he had 
but limited time for those detailed studies which appear to 
have been more directed to zoology than to botany. He 
was a great ornithologist ; and beyond that he devoted much 
time to collecting and collating all information as to the 
distribution and migration of whales, publishing a volume 
entitled “The Seals and Whales of the British Seas,” besides 
works relating to the birds of his native country. 
Another old member is the late Dr. 8S. H. RAMSBOTHAM 
of Harrogate, who was elected a non-Resident Fellow in 
1858, in which year he accompanied the late Professor 
John Hutton Balfour in a party visiting Switzerland on 
a botanical excursion. Dr. Ramsbotham practised in Leeds 
for thirty years, and died at Harrogate early this year. 
Dr. JoHN FRASER, a native of Glasgow, anda Non-Resident 
Fellow of the Society since the year 1865, died at Wolver- 
hampton in April last. In reply to inquiry, his daughter 
writes that she has asked an old friend of his—Mr Joseph 
Hough of Codsall Wood—to write a short notice, and I 
cannot do better than read to you what he has written of 
his friend :— 
“John Fraser was born in Glasgow on 22nd March 1820, 
and died 13th April 1909. He was the eldest son of David 
Fraser, the noted stonemason, of whom a short account is 
given in Hugh Miller’s ‘My Schools and Schoolmasters.’ 
He took his M.A. degree in 1843 at Glasgow University, 
where he acquired an extensive and accurate knowledge of 
classics, the study of which he never laid wholly aside 
even in the busiest part of his professional life. After he 
was eighty he read the whole of the ‘Iliad, and in the last 
three years of his life he found pleasure in reading ‘ Cicero's 
Letters. He also read regularly the Hebrew Bible, 
