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He was also successful in Primulas and Polyanthuses, 

 particularly in gold-laced varieties of the latter ; in raising 

 an excellent self-stage red Auricula ; and — to the envy, 

 perhaps, of many amateurs and professionals — of cultivat- 

 ing with conspicuous success numerous rare and difficult to 

 rear Alpine Ferns and other Alpines. 



Latterly he turned his attention to the improvement of 

 Trollius (globe-flower), and crossed the American with the 

 European species with good effect ; and he also produced 

 some beautiful varieties of the Daffodil, and was the 

 fortunate discoverer of a unique strain of that favourite 

 flower, giiowing wild, or naturalised from ancient times, 

 which is known as The Whitehall Daffodil. 



It was a real treat to a kindred spirit to ramble around 

 Dr. Stuart's extraordinarily well-stocked garden with its 

 owner, where, in expatiating upon his favourites, he would 

 " talk down hours to minutes." It was ever a marvel to 

 me how, in so small an area, such a vast collection of 

 plants and flowers were always flourishing, and still there 

 was space for experimental stations ! 



The lamented doctor was a man of much literary taste, 

 and, in addition to his numerous contributions to the 

 Berwickshire Club, and to certain Journals, wrote a 

 pamphlet on the Yetholm gipsies. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, — our Society, as well as 

 other Societies, is distinctly the poorer by the decease of 

 Dr. Charles Stuart, for, if not exactly a nobleman (though 

 he was not far from being one), he was emphatically a 

 noble man, whose name was an adornment, not only to our 

 roll, but to the longer, more ancient, and more compre- 

 hensive one of the Sous of Caledonia. 



Notes from the Archives of the Botanical Society 

 ON its Origin, History, and Privileges. By Symington 

 Grieve. 



(Read 10th April 1902.) 



The Botanical Society was formed on the 17th of March 

 1836, at a meeting held in Professor Graham's Classroom 

 at the College, Edinburgh, and was presided over by 

 Dr. J. H. Balfour (afterwards Professor J. H. Balfour), 



