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forestry throughout the British Empire received its earliest 

 impulse, and that the Exhibition should be so much 

 indebted for its prosperous issue to the co-operation of 

 Colonel Michael, the pioneer of practical forestry, and of 

 Cleghorn, the father of scientific forestry in India." 

 Though chill October saw this gorgeous exhibition of woods 

 and woodmen dispersed, its permanent results at least have 

 been — the Parliamentary Forestry Commission, the Indian 

 Eorest School at Cooper's Hill, lectureships at Edinburgh 

 and Durham Universities, together with the Hugh Cleghorn 

 Memorial Library in the Edinburgh Museum of Science 

 and Art. 



Dr. Cleghorn busied himself in the administration of 

 our Society, once occupying the presidential chair, obtain- 

 ing valuable papers from influential correspondents, as well 

 as devotincr infinite time and trouble in editing the 

 " Transactions." Li\dng at Stra%dthie, he arranged his 

 weeks so as to be present either at the monthly Council 

 or general meeting. He was elected one of our British 

 Honorary Fellows in 1890, an honour reserved to six 

 botanists of our own blood and kin. 



Two years ago Cleghorn resigned connection with the 

 India Office. As he said to the writer, " I dropped the 

 serAace before it could drop me." Yet days of activity, as 

 of old, sweetened by the company of his nephew's little 

 children, seemed before him ; so we thought, shaking hands 

 with him, tall, erect, and bustling, on an Edinburgh street 

 last Xovember. It was not so to be, for on the IGth May 

 1895 he was summoned, at Stravithie, to the acti\dties of 

 immortal youth iu Christ, in his seventy-fifth earthly year. 



CHROXOLOGY. 



Born in Madras. 9th August 1820. where his father was Adminstrator- 

 General in the Supreme Court. — Gra'luated as M.D. in 1841. — 

 Joined Madras General Hospital, 3 842. — Returned to Great 

 Britain in 1848. — Juror on Indian Products, Great Exhibition, 

 1851. — Author of Report of Brit. Asso. Report on Tropical 

 Forests. Ipswich. 1801. — Joined Linnean Society, 1851. — Chair 

 of Botany and Materia Medica, Madras Medical College, 1852. — 

 Requested by Lord Harris. Governor of Madras, to organise a 

 Forest Department for the Presidency, 1855. — Joint-Conservator 

 of Forests for India with Sir D. Brandis, 1861.- — Elected FeUow 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 18G3. — Inspector-General of 

 Forests, 1867. — Retired from Indian life, 1869. — President of 



