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man, as tlicy had each married a daughter of the late 

 Lord Reston, one of tlie judges of the Court of Session. 



Tlie zeal of Mr Cunningham for science seems to have 

 heen communicated to his sons, for, while all of them have 

 hecome Doctors of Medicine, the second son holding a high 

 place in the medical department of tlie Indian Army, the 

 eldest son has distinguished himself by his scientific 

 experiments, and is Professor of Natural History in Queen's 

 College, Belfast, 



Mr Cunningham's death, which took place on August 

 2, 1878, has proved a severe loss to science and religion. 



Regarding the two remaining Fellows I can obtain very 

 little information. 



Edward Vincent Sandilands was the youngest son of 

 the late Lieut.-General Philip Sandilands, Royal Artillery, 

 and was born at Hythe, in Kent, on April 5, 1847. His 

 death, which occurred about January 24, 1871, at the early 

 age of twenty-three, was caused by the swamping of his 

 boat in the neighbourhood of the Fiji Islands. He was a 

 Non-Resident Fellow of this Society, and was admitted as 

 such in 1865. It was only this year that we became 

 aware of his death, else his name would have been recorded 

 in our obituary list several years ago. 



Mr Alexander Graham, formerly of Kirkhill, Stirling- 

 shire, and latterly at Brimstage, Birkenhead, was admitted 

 a Non-Resident Fellow in July 1, 1859; but beyond the fact 

 of his death, nothing further is known regarding him. 



And now, Gentlemen, in conclusion, I cannot leave this 

 chair, without again expressing to you my high sense of 

 the uniform kindness and courtesy which I have received 

 at your hands. With a Society more harmonious than 

 this I have never been connected, and I do trust that the 

 fine spirit which has characterised us in the past, may be 

 equally manifested by us in the future ; and that we shall 

 strive together as one man to maintain and promote the 

 interests of this Society, which owes its existence to the 

 enlightened zeal and enthusiasm for botanical science 



