tgS tlMEHRl. 



Besides that of Professor Graham, other well-known 

 names, such as those of Professor Christison and Balfour 

 and Drs. Greville and Maclagan were included in the 

 list of Subscribers. 



Pasted in the cover is the following account of the 

 presentation, and as the Society cannot do less than 

 honour the man who virtually was the author of its 

 existence we give it in full : — 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 



DINNER TO W. H. CAMPBELL, ESQ., AND DR. J. H. BALFOUR. 



These gentlemen being about to leave Edinburgh, the one for a far 

 distant country, and the other to fulfil his professional duties in Glas- 

 gow, a dinner was given to them by the Royal Botanical Society, on 

 Wednesday last (14th July, 1841), in the Cafe Royal, as a token of the 

 esteem in which they are held by their fellow-members, and of the good 

 wishes which will accompany them to their sphere of afticn. 



About forty gentlemen, chiefly members of the society, sat down to 

 dinner. Professor Graham in the chair, and Dr. Greville croupier. 

 Besides the members of the society, we observed Professor Sir G. 

 Ballingall, and other distinguished scientific friends of the honoured 

 guests present on the occasion. 



After the usual loyal toasts. Professor Graham, in a very feeling and 

 eloquent address, which was most cordially applauded, proposed the 

 health of Mr. Campbell. He said that the Botanical Society had much 

 reason to feel grateful to Mr. Campbell for the great zeal and ability 

 he had displayed as their Secretary. To his exertions indeed, and those 

 of Dr. Balfour, the Society might be said mainly to owe its existence. 

 But it was not only in this capacity that his loss would be felt, for as a 

 private friend his amiable qualities and sterling worth had endeared 

 him to every one who had the pleasure of knowing him. He would 

 carry with him to Demerara the heartfelt wishes of all for his success 

 in the pursuit he was there to enter upon. He trusted, however, that 

 while devoting himself, as he knew he would, zealously to his profes- 

 sional duties, he might still find time to cultivate in so luxuriant a field, 

 as that country presented, his favourite science of botany, and enrich 

 the Botanical Society with some of the treasures of that fertile region. 

 The Professor concluded by again expressing the deep regret they all felt 



