JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 97 
BIOLOGICAL SECTION. 
REPORT FOR 1900-01. 
The Section has little or nothing to report in the way of 
actual work done during the past Session. 
Since the last report there has been added to the Herbar- 
ium of the Section, the collection of the plants made by the 
late Judge Logie. This collection has been donated to the 
Association through the kindness of the family of the late 
Judge and our good friend Dr. Reynolds, to whom the Section 
is deeply grateful. 
Judge Logie took a great interest in the work of the 
Association and especially in the subjects coming under the 
attention of the Biological Section. He was not only an 
enthusiastic botanist but was also deeply interested in every- 
thing connected with Horticulture. He was the second Presi- 
dent of the Association after its re-organization in 1870, to 
bring about which he earnestly laboured. He contributed 
several interestii:g papers which were read before the Asso- 
ciation, among others might be mentioned one entitled ‘‘ Notes 
_on Ginseng,’’ and another on ‘‘ The Botany of California and 
the Territories Lying to the West of the Rocky Mountains,’’ 
also ‘‘The Flora of Hamilton,’’ a list of plants found growing 
in the neighborhood of Hamilton during the years 1859-61, 
including plants collected by Miss Kate Crooks, and published 
in the Annals of the Botanical Society of Canada. 
We still have a vivid recollection of the genial warm- 
hearted manner in which he entered into the discussion of the 
subjects coming before the meetings. A very pleasant memory 
also remains of being appointed a colleague of his to examine 
the botany of the Ravine near Grimsby on the occasion of an 
Association ‘‘ Field day’’ at that place in 1872. It seems 
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