July 1895.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUEGII. 439 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursdcay, July 11, 1895. 

 Symington Grieve, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Ealph Stockman, M.D., was elected Eesident Fellow of 

 the Society. 



The following plants were exhibited from the Eoyal 

 Botanic Garden : — Strcptocarpits Saundcrsii, Tussacia pul- 

 chclla, Ureocharis Clihrani, Nertera deprcssa, Lambertia 

 formosa, Covibretwn puiyureum, Platytheca galioidcs, 

 Crinum augustum, Cypriiiedium Parishii, Aristolochia 

 tricaudata. 



The following papers were read : — 



Obituary Notice of Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn, 

 M.T)., LL.D., F.II.S.E., F.L.S. By Andrew Taylor. 



Dr. Cleghorn joined this Society in 1837. The first of 

 several medical students who have left our table to 

 demonstrate the richer yields of descriptive Indian botany, 

 he also opened a new career to the professional botanist. 

 He was born in Madras in 1820, but returning to Fife 

 in infancy, the love of nature beset the boy. He studied 

 medicine in Edinburgh, as he himself from our chair 

 recommended the future travelling botanist to do, mainly 

 as a profitable life-opening in which he could also follow 

 his future studies. In 1841 our young M.D. sailed for 

 Madras, joining the Medical Establishment of the H. E.I.C.S. 

 in the subsequent year, aged twenty-two. 



How the six years were spent ere Cleghorn left India 

 in 1848 on sick-leave may be judged from the following 

 extracts from a paper " On the Hedge Plants of India," 



Issued November 1895. 



