Nov. 1910.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 97 
important botanical work—as Volume X XV. of the “ Trans- 
actions and Proceedings” of the Society —“ The Distribution 
of Hepatic in Scotland,” by Mr. Symers A. Maevicar. 
This volume has been issued to the Fellows of the Society 
and to the various bodies with whom we exchange publi- 
cations. While the Hepatic are perhaps not a race of 
plants which appeal to all classes of botanical students, those 
of you who have had time to examine this work cannot 
but be convinced of its great importance as an addition 
to botanical literature and science, and you cannot fail to 
be impressed with the immense amount of research and 
work which Mr. Maevicar has devoted to his subject. The 
Society may congratulate itself that such a work should 
have been published under its auspices, and we may in 
turn congratulate Mr. Maevicar on his work, and on the 
reception it has met with in scientific circles. 
I must now make reference to those of our number who 
have passed away during the year. 
Herr Max Letcutiiy.—The first of these is a name 
well known to all botanists and florists. I refer 
to Herr Max Leichtlin of Baden-Baden, a Foreign 
Honorary Fellow and a Corresponding Member of the 
Society since January 1886, who died on 3rd September 
last at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. Born 
at Carlsruhe in 1831, he appears to have had his first 
horticultural experiences at Ghent, in the famous nursery 
of Louis Van Houtte. Later he spent some time in 
the gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, under the late Dr. 
Moore; but, naturally enough, he returned to his native 
country, and devoted himself to growing and collecting 
plants. His name is surely well known by the specific 
adjective “Leichtlinii,’” which appears added to many 
species and varieties. His interests seem to have been 
chiefly centred in plants of the Liliaceous tribe and their 
allies. I have before me a list of some thirty-five plants 
introduced by him, and recorded in the “Botanical 
Magazine ” between the years 1870 and 1908, almost entirely 
Liliaceous, though including other valuable hardy plants 
such as the beautiful Incarvillea Delavayi, Campanula 
mirabilis, and others. There is the fine aubretea which 
