158 Co-OPERATION AND THE ORIGIN OF FLOWERS. 
existed; here, however, questions arise which are outside the 
limits of the natural sciences. 
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20th January, 1922. 
Chairman—Dr. W.: SEMPLE. 
Sir John Macbrair. 
A Friend of John Knox. 
By James Kine Hewison, D.D. 
The surname Macbrair, which signifies in Gaelic the son 
of the friar (brathaiv), is not only reminiscent of that age 
when the Gaelic language was still spoken in South-west 
