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gee, are all at elevations of from 8 to 9,000 feet; while it was at 12 to 

 15,000 feet that those northern forms of plants were found, for which 

 those much lower spots are erroneously cited." 



C. 



Note on the Death of Mr. William Jackson. 

 By George Lawson, Esq. 



It is with feelings of a painful kind that I communicate to your 

 readers the mournful tidings of the death of Mr. William Jackson, a 

 most devoted and zealous naturalist, and a contributor to your pages. 

 He died here on the morning of Sabbath the 12th current, in the 

 twenty-seventh year of his age, leaving many loving relations and a 

 numerous circle of admiring friends, and above all a sorrowful widow 

 and two little twin children, to lament his loss. Mr. Jackson was an 

 enthusiastic field naturalist, and devoted attention to almost every de- 

 partment of Natural History. His earlier years were principally oc- 

 cupied in gaining an acquaintance with Botany, and in 1840 he was 

 elected an associate member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

 During the past few years, however, he has been much engaged in the 

 study of Zoology, although the results of his labours are unpublished. 

 Mr. Jackson's father was likewise a zealous and persevering naturalist, 

 and for many years acted as Curator of the Watt Institution Museum, 

 and since the decease of his father he has occupied that situation, and 

 discharged the duties of the office in a way highly creditable to him- 

 self and gratifying to the directors and members of the Institution. 

 He has likewise been chosen at two elections as Treasurer of the 

 Dundee Naturalists' Association, and so long as he was at all able he 

 did everything in his power to forward the interests of that Associa- 

 tion, and to spread a taste for Natural History in local circles. Mr. 

 Jackson loved to share with his fellow-men around him his own pure 

 intellectual enjoyments, and was ever willing to communicate in- 

 struction to those uninitiated in the mysteries of Natural History. In 

 private character he was a most amiable man, and justly esteemed by 

 all who shared his acquaintance. 



George Lawson. 



Dundee, March 25, 1848. 



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