JULY1S95.] BOTAXICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 445 



on Forest Protection. So too, as examiner in Botany to 

 medical aspirants, or in Forestry, for the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society's Diploma, Dr. Cleghorn's kindly 

 manner put spirit into the disheartened candidate. A 

 power of specific individualisation, which extended alike to 

 men and trees, constituted a main element in his successful 

 career. 



The visitor to the ancestral home at Stravithie, rebuilt 

 after his fiual return from India, could not fail being 

 struck with the sympathy, arising from intimate personal 

 knowledge, manifested to fishermen or cottagers of Boar- 

 hills, the neighbouring hamlet. He would mark, too, the 

 enthusiasm glancing from the doctor's eye as he pruned 

 with bill-hook some excrescence on a favourite pine, for he 

 knew every tree in his woods. Mrs. Cleghorn died several 

 years before himself, yet the doctor continued steady work. 

 County meetings, scientific councils, examination boards, 

 and an enormous heap of correspondence filled up the busy 

 hours. The Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, of which he 

 was a chief promoter, was perhaps the greatest break in 

 this systematic routine. The spare lithe form of the 

 doctor fleeting about its halls, was well-known to the 

 general visitor. Only those acquainted with the inner 

 workings became aware of the time spent on almost every 

 committee ; of his editing foreign catalogues, involving an 

 immense study of specific floras and herbarium specimens, 

 borrowed from our institutions ; of his taking a house in 

 the neighbourhood so as to be close to the, as yet, hazardous 

 undertaking ; of his hospitality to savans and Indian forest 

 officers. AVhat looked at first to be a financial failure, 

 turned out a magnificent success even in this age of steel. 

 Dr. Cleghorn was an old hand at exhibition work, serving 

 his novitiate, under Dr. Forbes Eoyle, in the Mother of all 

 British ones in 1851, classifying the exhibits of the Indian 

 section. Hence the perfect arrangement of this new one 

 at Murrayfield, the Indian court of which was magnificent : 

 and the special catalogue of which, a pamphlet of lltj 

 pages, is of permanent value. Sir George Birdwood, C.S.I., 

 thus concludes his editorial preface : " It is a happy omen 

 that the first International Exhibition should have been 

 held in the stately capital of Scotland, where scientific 



