ROGER KENNEDY. xix 



Instating that "He worked without expectation of monetary 

 reward he worked because of a very love of his labour," we have 

 a distinct recognition of an innate feature of Mr. Kennedy's nature. 

 There are few men who pass through life and of whom it can be 

 said they Itad as small a love of sordid pelf as the subject of this 

 notice. That contempt for the material things of this world which 

 is preached on the Sunday, Mr. Kennedy faithfully practised every 

 day in the week. He never gathered to himself money, neither by 

 means of Botany or by any other sources, for it was not in the nature 

 of the man to do so. A large portion of the time he lectured to the 

 Mechanics' Institution was done without any remuneration. And 

 the time he devoted to his students beyond the lectures and 

 excursions was all given from the fulness of his heart. In truth, it 

 may be said that all the time, during a space of nearly forty years, 

 which he devoted to flowers, was work given without expectation of 

 monetary reward, and given because of a very love of his labour. 

 It was this love which led to long walks or rambles round Glasgow, 

 and into the country to his favourite "Stations" for flowers. He 

 knew where every particular flower could be found, as well as the 

 date, almost to a day, when it would bud and bloom, and might be 

 gathered, so as to bring it into his class. The same love kept him 

 hard at work at night, and often far into the morning, drying and 

 arranging botanical specimens ; the large collection which he 

 formed being now in the Andersonian University, having been given 

 to that institution by Mrs, Kennedy. He has also left a very large 

 and important collection of diatoms, which has also been presented 

 to the same institution. 



In his botanical excursions he was often led into adventures. He 

 had many incidents with gamekeepers, who naturally took him for a 

 poacher. On an excursion he made eastward to the Clova Moun- 

 tains he was, after a long day's hard work, benighted, and had to 

 sleep in the hills starving of hunger the next morning he met a 

 shepherd, and managed to get a share of a very simple breakfast. 



It is also known that on this excursion he had to strip and wade 

 into the middle of Loch Brandy for a rare plant. Often there 

 were considerable fears at home for his safety. When a Botanist 

 is working at diatoms and the lower forms of vegetable life, he 

 frequents bogs, marshes, and pools of all kinds, no matter how deep 



