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of Keir. The specimen was remarkable for the growths, in 

 length, of the three past years it exhibited, the length of the 

 stem being in each year over 4 feet. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Obituary Xotice of Charles Jenner. By Eobert 

 Lindsay. 



We have to record with great regret the death of Charles 

 Jenner, which occurred at Easter Duddingston Lodge, 

 Portobello, on 27th October 1893, in the eighty-fourth 

 year of his age. Born at Chatham, Kent, on the 1st 

 September 1810, he was sent, when thirteen years old, to 

 learn the business which in after life he pursued with so 

 much zeal and energy, and at the age of twenty he came 

 to Edinburgh, founded, and carried on for fifty years, one 

 of the most successful drapery establishments in the city. 



Soon after settlina; in Edinburoh Mr. Jenner became a 

 member of the Philosophical Institution, and he attributed 

 much of his success in after life to the valuable instruction 

 he received there. His tastes directed him to literary and 

 scientific pursuits, and he joined tlie Botanical Society in 

 1351, and found time during his busy life to contribute 

 several papers to our Transactions. His attention was early 

 directed to cryptogamic plants, and he devoted much time 

 to the study of the unicellular Alga?. In 1867 he was 

 elected President of this Society. 



Mr. Jenner had an intense admiration of Scottish scenery, 

 and took special delight in botanizing on our Scottish moun- 

 tains ; indeed, nearly all his holidays were thus spent. He 

 began with the Pentland Hills, the geology of which first 

 attracted him ; this he followed up until there was scarcely 

 a mountain district in Scotland that he did not know 

 intimately. 



In 1868, when President of this Society, he proposed 

 the formation of an Alpine Botanical Club, on the plan 

 pursued at some of the German universities, and a committee 

 was appointed to consider the subject, but it never reported. 

 The idea, however, was not lost sight of, for within two 

 years the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club was formed at 



