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Turning now to the Resident Fellows no longer with 
us :— 
Lord M‘Laren.—The first name on the list of Resident 
Fellows whom I would mention is that of a prominent 
townsman of our own. I refer to the late Hon. Lord 
M‘Laren, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, 
and a Fellow of this Society since June 1850. With, I 
think, only two exceptions, Lord M‘Laren was the oldest 
of the Fellows of the Society. He passed away at an 
advanced age in April last, having been one of our 
members for sixty years. It seems hardly necessary here 
that I should refer in detail to the life of one so well 
known in the City of Edinburgh, with which he had such 
a close personal connection, and where he was so highly 
honoured and respected. His interest in botanical science 
was only one of other avocations with which his somewhat 
limited leisure time was occupied. Other scientific subjects 
and other scientific societies equally had their attraction 
for him, and his high position involved him in much public 
work apart altogether from the calls of his extensive 
practice at the Scottish Bar, and, later, his arduous duties 
as one of the Senators of the College of Justice. 
Mr. JOHN MONTGOMERIE BELL.—I would record the death 
of Mr. John Montgomerie Bell, Writer to the Signet, 
Edinburgh, one of the oldest Fellows of the Society, having 
become a Resident Fellow in February 1857. The son of 
the late Alexander Montgomerie Bell, Professor of Con- 
veyancing in the University of Edinburgh, he was born in 
1837, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy. He 
attended the late Professor Balfour's Class of Botany at 
the University of Edinburgh in 1857, and it is evidence of 
his enthusiasm as a botanist that he won the class medal 
for the best herbarium. It is of interest to remember that 
in August of the following year, 1858, he formed one of a 
party—I think he was the last survivor of a party—of 
botanists who, under Professor Balfour, visited Switzerland 
on a botanical expedition, of which a most interesting 
record has been published. Travelling was not so quick in 
those days, and perhaps time was not so valuable, for a 
week was passed before Switzerland was reached ; but, once 
