Botanical Department 
of the 
‘University of Edinburgh. 
For more than a century and a half the offices of Regius 
Keeper of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany in the 
University of Edinburgh have been held by the same person, and 
it has become the custom that the students of the University 
come to the Garden for instruction in Botany. The whole work 
of the Botanical Department of the University is carried out in 
the Garden by the University Staff, which at this date is 
constituted as follows :— 
Professor of Botany . ; é . Isaac Bayley Balfour, 
M.A., M.D., F.R.S. 
Assistant and Lecturer on Botany . Robert Chapman Davie, 
M.A., B.Sc. 
Assistant and Lecturer on Forest 
Botany _ Albert William Borthwick, D.Sc. 
Assistant and Lecturer on Mycology Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc. 
Assistant and Lecturer on Plant 
Physiology Edward Holmes Smith, B.Se. 
Thomas Matthews Finlay, 
Assistant and Tutor in Botany . 
M.A., B.Se. 
