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Dr. Cleghorn was a member of Council, and made 

 several communications and presentations to the Society 

 during his temporary sojourn in Scotland from 1860 to 

 1861. He also published at this time his book on "The 

 Forests and Gardens of South India," a work which. Sir 

 D. Brandis says, had much influence with the now Imperial 

 Government in its adoption of great measures for Forest 

 Conservancy. In October 1861 he wrote to Professor 

 Balfour of perils from inundation at Alexandria on his 

 return voyage, this time accompanied by a bride, Mabel, a 

 daughter of the late Charles Cowan, formerly M.P. for 

 Edinburgh, and a cinchona glass case given him at Kew. 

 At our first meeting in 1863, Professor Balfour announced 

 receipt of another letter, dated 2ud December 1861, 

 announcing transference of cinchona plants, after safe 

 arrival at Madras, to jSTilgiris to be planted, but that the 

 other newcomers were on their way to the Punjaub to 

 examine the forests there. So, in consequence of this 

 order of the Governor-General in Council, the honeymoon 

 spread over three years on the slopes of the Himalayas. 

 In this home stay Francis Appavoo, native surgeon, was 

 made an Associate at Cleghorn's instigation. His assistant 

 dresser, when district surgeon, also assistant to Cleghorn 

 when teaching Materia Medica and Botany in the Madras 

 Medical College, he had followed his master, in 1859, into 

 the Forest Conservancy Office. His death is touchingly 

 noticed in the opening address by Sir Douglas Maclagan 

 to our session 1863—64. 



The magnificent Deodar forests, the gorgeous vegetation 

 of the valleys, and the natives eager for medical advice, 

 furnish several papers to our " Transactions " from this 

 Himalayan pilgrimage. They are to be found in volume viii., 

 including a " Detailed List of the Principal Plants of the 

 Sutlej Valley;" "Notes of an Excursion from Simla to the 

 Valleys of Giri, Pabur, and Tonse ; " and "Supplementary 

 Notes upon the Vegetation of the Sutlej Valley." This 

 last, read 1.3th July 1865, was followed by a like paper 

 by Dr. Brandis, now ten years in the Indian Forest Service. 

 Professor Balfour remarked on the presence that evening 

 of Drs. Wight, Brandis, Cleghorn, and John Kirk, then of 

 Zambesi fame. Brandis, first Inspector-General of Indian 



