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there, a fortnight was spent in various centres, and a large 
and varied collection of Alpine and Continental species was 
obtained, of which a complete record is in the publi- 
cation referred to. Besides being a Fellow of the Society, 
Mr. Bell was a member of the Scottish Alpine Botani- 
cal Club and of the Edinburgh Botanical Society Club. 
Throughout his life Mr. Bell took a keen interest in field 
botany. In 1898, I think, he accompanied Mr. Alexander 
Cowan of Valleyfield on a botanical expedition to Norway, 
extending over some weeks, and at a later date he read a 
papertothe Society which is published in our “Transactions.” 
Mr. Bell died in June last in his 74th year. 
Mr. ALEXANDER MILNE.—I have also to record the death 
of Mr. Alexander Milne of Messrs. Dicksons, Edinburgh, a 
Fellow of the Society since March 1883. He was a well- 
known citizen of Edinburgh, and a member of a very old- 
established firm of nurserymen. His energies and interests 
were chiefly directed to Coniferous and Forest trees, but 
very naturally a business such as his embraced every branch 
of his profession. 
Mr. D. F. Mackenzie.—Another loss sustained by the 
Society is in the death of Mr. D. F. Mackenzie, Factor on 
the estates of Mortonhall, Midlothian, a Fellow of the 
Society since 1902. Few men in his walk in life were 
better known than Mr. Mackenzie. His interests were, I 
must say, chiefly in the department of forestry, on which 
he was an admitted authority. He had been a member of 
the Royal Arboricultural Society since 1872, and their 
Transactions contain many articles contributed by him 
during the long period of his membership. He was ahead 
of others in his views as to the necessity for the afforesta- 
tion or the re-afforestation of waste lands—now so promi- 
nently before the people of this country. In 1890 (twenty 
years ago) he delivered an important address on the sub- 
ject. He held the position of examiner in forestry to the 
Highland and Agricultural Society. An important work, 
and one of distinct interest to the Fellows of the Botani- 
cal Society, was carried out in 1893, when Mr. Mackenzie 
prepared and presented to the Arboricultural Society a 
