SCIENTISTS OF THE NORTH-EAST OF SCOTLAND tog 
to Cork as Professor of Geology. In 1853 he was appointed to the chair 
of Natural History in Aberdeen. His distinctive contribution to the 
literature of his subject was the share he contributed, through papers to 
the Journal of the Geological Society, in solving the problem of the 
parallel ‘ roads ’ of Glen Roy. 
Borany. 
Beattiz, Prof. James——He was a nephew of Prof. James Beattie, of 
The Minstrel, with whom he is generally confused. He became Professor 
of Civil and Natural History in Marischal College, 1788, his uncle being 
Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the same college. 
Brown, Rogert, D.C.L.—A native of Montrose, and a student of 
Marischal College, he devoted a large part of his life to exploring the 
vegetable world of New Holland and Van Dieman’s Land. He was 
Librarian to the Linnean Society, also to Sir Joseph Banks, and latterly 
Keeper of the Botanical Collections of the British Museum. 
Davipson, Rev. GrorcE, LL.D.—Born 1825, he was a native of 
Crathie, opposite Balmoral Castle, and was minister of Logie Coldstone, 
between the Dee and the Don, for nearly half a century. His chief 
interest, apart from parochial duties, was microscopic botany, and in 
the course of his investigations in his own locality he discovered kiesselguhr 
deposits in the district of Cromar that were afterwards largely used in 
the manufacture of dynamite. 
Dickigz, Prof. GzorGE.—Dickie has been familiar to generations of 
botanists in the north-east of Scotland through his Botanist’s Guide to 
the district, 1860, his Flora Aberdonensis, 1838, and other publications 
bearing on the plant life of the north-east of Scotland. He was the first 
Professor of Botany in the reconstituted University of Aberdeen, 1860. 
ForsyTH, WiLLIAM.—Bred as a gardener at Oldmeldrum, Aberdeen- 
shire, Forsyth went to London, 1763, and found employment in the 
Apothecaries’ Garden at Chelsea. He became Head, and was afterwards 
Superintendent of the Royal Gardens of St. James’s and Kensington. 
He had the remarkable distinction of receiving the thanks of both Houses 
of Parliament for his treatment of diseased trees. 
Kine, Sir Grorce.—George King was raised in a literary atmosphere 
in respect that his family were engaged in the bookselling business in 
Aberdeen. He graduated M.B. at Marischal College, 1865, and presently 
went to India, where he did his life’s work. On the discovery of his 
botanical attainments he was made Acting Superintendent of the 
Saharanpur Botanical Gardens, 1868; subsequently he was transferred 
to the Forestry Department of the North-West Provinces, and afterwards, 
1871, he was made Director of the Botanical Survey of India. The 
Royal Botanical Gardens at Calcutta were planted by him, and during 
his period of office productions of the nurseries of economic and other 
useful plants that he established were distributed to all parts of the 
world. He received from his own university the honorary degree of 
LL.D. in 1883, and his knighthood in 1886. 
