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for the loss of so valuable a member, and so respefted a friend, but trusted 

 that he would in due time return to his native city full of wealth and hon- 

 our. Mr. Campbell's health was then drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. 



Mr. Campbell, who was much affefted, in brief and feeling terms ex- 

 pressed his deep sense of the great honour which had been paid him by 

 so distinguished a meeting, whose favourable opinion he should always 

 consider as his highest reward. He sincerely thanked them for their 

 good wishes, and the recolleftion of that day would stimulate him to do 

 everything in his power to merit their esteem. 



Professor Graham again rose and said, it was his pleasing duty to 

 present Mr. Campbell with a slight token of the respeft and esteem in 

 which he was held by the Society. The present was a sincere though 

 by no means an adequate expression of their gratitude to him. The 

 chairman then handed Mr. Campbell a copy of DecandoUe's Prodromus, 

 bearing the following inscription : — 



" Presented by several members of the Botanical Society, to William 

 Hunter Campbell, Esq., on his leaving Edinburgh, as a special acknow- 

 ledgment for the admirable manner in which he has performed the 

 duties of Secretary to the Society, since its formation in 1836." 



Dr. Greville then proposed the health of Dr. J. H. Balfour, and, after 

 alluding to the important services which he, in common with Mr. 

 Campbell, had rendered to the Society, congratulated him on his eleva- 

 vation to the Chair of Botany, in the University of Glasgow, an ap- 

 pointment to which he was sure his excellent and talented friend will 

 do ample justice. The toast was drunk with great applause. 



Dr. Balfour replied in appropriate terms, and after a variety of other 

 toasts the company broke up. The dinner and wines reflefted the 

 highest credit on Mr. Dewar, and the coffee, with which the entertain 

 ment concluded, was excellent, and a refreshing novelty. 



The same zeal and energy displayed in organising the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh was brought to bear 

 upon the people of Demerara, with the result that the 

 Society remains to-day a monument to Mr. Campbell, 

 far more conspicuous than the marble bust which stands 

 in its Reading Room. 



Another relic of the early members was a copy of 

 Sprengel's " Systema Vegatabilium" with the autographs 



