William Carnithers. 



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In 1865 he married Jane Couch, eldest daughter of William L. 

 MofEatt, Architect, Edinburgh, and has two sons and a daughter. 

 His second son, John Bennett, followed his father's footsteps, and 

 took np Economic Botany. After acting as assistant in his father's 

 laboratory and giving special attention to the diseases of plants, he 

 went to Ceylon at the request of the planters to investigate a malady 

 destroying the Cacao trees. Thereafter he entered the Colonial 

 Service and did excellent pioneer work in Ceylon, the Federated 

 Malay States, and Trinidad, where he died in 1910 at the early age 

 of 41. The elder son, Samuel William, who has an honours M.D. of 

 Edinburgh, is in practice at Norwood, and his daughter has her home 

 in the same suburb. 



He is now enjoying with his family near him, at Central Hill, 

 Norwood, the repose of a long, useful, and honourable life. 



List of Contkibutions to Palaeontology, etc., by Dk. William 

 Carruthers, F.R.S. 



1858. " Dumfriesshh'e Graptolites, with descriptions of three new species" : 



Proc. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. i, pp. 466-70 ; [republished in] 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. iii, pp. 23-6, 1859. 

 1862. "The Geology of Moffat": Proc. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. ii, 



pp. 383-90 ; Edinburgh New Phil. Journ., vol. xvi, pp. 33-40. 

 " On a section at Junction Road, Leith " : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 



vol. sviii, pp. 450-3. 



1865. " On an undescribed Cone from the Carboniferous beds of Airdree, 



Lanarkshire: Flemingites gracilis'^ : Geol. Mag., Vol. II, 

 pp. 433-40, PL XII. 

 "On Caulopteris punctata, Goepp., a tree-fern from the Upper 

 Greensand of Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire " : ibid., pp. 484-7. 



1866. " On the Vegetation of the Coal Period " : ibid.. Vol. Ill, pp. 229-30. 



" On Araucarian Cones from the Secondary beds of Britain " : ibid., 



pp. 249-52. 

 " On some fossil Coniferous fruits " : ibid., pp. 534-46. 

 " On the structure and affinities of Lepidodendron and Calamites " : 



Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. viii, pp. 495-507; Journ. Bot., 



vol. iv, pp. 337-48. 



1867. " On Gymnospermatous fruits from the Secondary rocks of Britain " : 



Journ. Bot., vol. v, pp. 1-21. 

 " On Calamiteffi and fossil Equisetacete " : ibid., p. 304. 

 " On the structure of the fruit of Calamites " : ibid., pp. 349-56. 

 ' ' Note on the systematic position of Graptolites and on their supposed 



ovaria-vesicles " : Geol. Mag., Vol. IV, pp. 70-2, 187, 336. 

 " On some Cycadean fruits from the Secondary rocks of Britain " : 



ibid., pp. 101-6. 

 " On an Aroideous fruit from the Stonesfield Slate " : ibid., pp. 146-7. 

 " On Cycadoidea Yatesii, a fossil Cycadean stem from the Potton Sands, 



Bedfordshire" : ibid., pp. 199-201. 

 Appendix D, on Graptolites, in Sir E. I. Murchison, Siluria [London]. 

 "Graptolites, their structure and systematic position": Intellectual 



Observer, vol. xi, pp. 283-92, 365-74. 

 " On British Fossil Cycadese " : Journ. Bot., vol. v, pp. 302-4; Eep. 



Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Dundee, 1867) [1868], p. 80. 

 " Enumeration of British Graptolites " : ibid., p. 57. 

 "On the fruit of a Pandanus from the Great Oolite" : Journ. Bot., 



vol. V, p. 304. [Abstract of paper read before Dundee Meeting, Brit. 



Assoc] 



