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to mourn his loss. He was latterly accustomed to spend 

 the autumn of each year at his eldest son's farm at Elphin- 

 stone Tower, East Lothian. 



At our last meeting many of us were saddened by 

 the sudden death, a few days previously, of the late Mr 

 Frederick M. Webb, at the early age of thirty-nine. 

 Mr Webb had devoted the last ten years exclusively to 

 botanical pursuits. His enthusiasm as a field botanist, 

 his wonderful aptitude for placing a specimen and exhi- 

 biting its critical characters, were admired when he was 

 little more than a boy. Mr Webb took a prominent part in 

 the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, writing in lithograph 

 a journal circulated amongst the working members; and his 

 knowledge was much appreciated by the botanists of the 

 Chester Society of Natural Science. His aid is acknow- 

 ledged by Mr H. C. Watson in " Topographical Botany." 

 He entered on his duties in the Edinburgh Herbarium in 

 1876 ; and the paper, published in vol. xiii. p. 88, of our 

 Transactions, entitled " Notes upon some Plants in the 

 British Herbarium of the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh," intended as a sort of index to the collection, 

 shows his admirable method of work. Mr Webb contri- 

 buted to the " Journal of Botany " an excellent paper " On 

 Utricularia neglecta and on U. Bremii as a British Plant." * 



Since we last met the grave has closed over the mortal 

 remains of Dr William Lauder Lindsay, F.E.S.E., F.L.S., 

 for many years medical superintendent of the Murray 

 Institute at Perth, a situation he vacated about a year ago 

 through failing health. Dr Lindsay joined our ranks in 

 1849, and has been a valued contributor to our Transac- 

 tions. Papers on Lichenology have also appeared in the 

 Journal and Transactions of the Linnean Society. The 

 " History of British Lichens " and the " Contributions to 

 New Zealand Botany," bear sufficient evidence of the good 

 work he did. Many of us trusted that they were but the 

 forecasts of further scientific research in the leisure secured 

 after twenty years' worry at the head of a lunatic asylum. 

 But in stead we mourn the loss of one of our most hard- 



* " Journal of Botany," xiv. 142-147, 1876. 



