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I may be permitted to say that I rejoice to know that 

 steps are being taken by the various societies with which 

 he was so long and honourably connected, to raise some 

 fitting memorial to commemorate this distinguished and 

 worthy man. 



Obituary Xotice of the late Dr. George C. Walligh. 

 By The President. 



(Read 13th July 1899.) 



By the death of Surgeon-Major Wallich, the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh has lost one of its original members, 

 and, so far as I know, he was the last surviv^or, with the 

 exception of Dr. li. C. Alexander-Prior, M.D., P.L.S. 



The first meeting of our Society was on the 17th March 

 1836, and the members present were^ — Drs. Grahame, 

 Greville, Neill, Balfour, Barry, Parnell, and Alexander ; and 

 Messrs. Walker- Arnott, Falconer, Maughan, Stewart, Brand, 

 Forbes, :\Iunby, W. M'Nab, J. M'Xab, G. :\I. M'Xab, Tyacke, 

 Wallich, Charlton, and Campbell. 



Dr. Wallich was born at Calcutta in November 1815. 

 His father. Dr. Xathaniel Wallich, was one of the greatest 

 of the early Indian botanists — a worthy successor of Carey 

 and Roxburgh. He will always be remembered as having 

 given his name to an important genus of dwarf palms, 

 which was named after liim, Wallichia. The son, Dr, 

 George Charles Wallich, was sent to Beverley, in Yorkshire, 

 to school, and afterwards to the Heading Grammar School. 

 He attended the Arts Classes in King's College, Aberdeen, 

 and studied Medicine in Edinburgh, passing as a doctor 

 there in 1830, and leaving immediately afterwards for 

 Calcutta, where his father vv'as superintendent of the 

 Botanical Gardens. 



At the meeting of the 17th Alurch 1830, he was 

 present as Mr. Wallich. In tlie lirst published list of 

 members, dated 9th March •1837, his name appears as 

 Dr. Wallich, Calcutta, non-resident. In the same list his 

 father. Dr. Xathaniel Wallich, Calcutta, is entered as an 

 Iionoraiy member. 



