5 
“The Testament Dative and Inventory of the goods and gear of Malcolm 
McCoig is in the Commissariot Record of Edinburgh of 25th March, 
1789. His widow, Eleonora Whitehead, was sole executor, The 
effects were ‘“‘valued by Ann Gardner, auctioneer in Edinburgh, 
conform to her signed estimation,” which shows that women practised 
as auctioneers at this date. Amongst the items in the inventory are 
159 ‘‘copies of the History and Progress of Botany”; 120 “ pea 
Genera Plantarum”? ; 109 ‘‘ of the rae x Herbarum A cdicinaitians* 
79 ‘fof the epions Arborum et Fruticum”*; 5 ‘‘ of the Termini 
Botanici ”*; 12° **of Sud Gerardi’ ®; 2 of the Plantarum Offcin- 
arum”’, These ae were all of the nature of class-hooks— 
none of any great cannot believe that McCoig had 
accumulated the sib tbat in the numbers mentioned for his own 
use, and it seems reasonable to suggest that they indicate a custom of 
the inet the Head Gardener acquired them for sale to students at 
a profit, or they were given to him for sale as one of his perquisites ; 
on the other hand, it may be that the auctioneer, finding them in the 
gardener’s house, included them in the inventory, although they were 
there only for distribution to students. 
Page 49, line 30, for could read would. 
55; +, 7, Alexander Don, father. of Bee Don, removed from Beechhall, 
Menmuir, in 1772 1773 to Little Causeway, Forfar.— 
Miss Jane Taylor pe, Mill Bank, Forfar, in letter, 23rd 
February, 1905. 
I do not know what book or pamphlet i is here referred t 
“Genera Plantarum ex editione duo decima Sy: ecssicatis ‘Natcte steering Carolina 
Academicos. Edinburgi: Typis Academicis, mpccLxx1,” pp. is i 
= firet edition of the pamphlet brought oat by Dr. Hope—there were Tikiaamend editions— 
for ed use of his students. His name is —. on the title page. 
ably Ecorse hes Edinburgense conscriptum a Carolo Alston, 
ace Typis A ates. and J. Cochran, veneunt autem apud G, Hamilton 
and alfour, upceutti,” of wns ch Part tons ad 120 > pages s entitled ‘Index plantarum 
iiediinalven ¢ 
46 
‘Catalo logus s Arborum et Fruticum in Horto erie crescentium anno 1778: Edinburgi 
apud eesnine 6 lemme MDCCLXXVIII,” pp. 1-20. s the earliest edition which I have 
y Dr. Ho ope, whooe — does not appear. i 
“Termin is. Accedunt Index gent 
ie Edi fapuret apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, Academie Typographos, mpccLxx,” 
« Pp. i.-vi.; 7-40. The first edition (I have later ones) of another pamphlet apie for his 
students ae . Hope, but without his name on title page. 
“Ts atatte to suggest an interpreta of this. Had the ae Ap Divya Gerardi” 
they nih have spain to John Gerar ws Soi “Catalogus Arborum tam 
indigenarum quam é€ ticarum in scentium ’ bert in ts aa in 1556, and 
we sea: h had dicati f the scholastic use ot Gerarde’s C 
the end of the 17th century. But Mr. Paton tells me t iti i 
= or ‘Lud.’ Possibly, as he suggests, there is a —— and the word should be 
* Cat 
7 Froonaly ‘ ag sioner a a pp. 66, which formed the third part of “ Index 
nta 
nalium e in Horto Medico Edinburgensi a Carolo Alston M. 
et B. oe deticen studios demonstranr " Eliskucd: apud W. Sands, A. Brymer, 
, and J. Cochran, mpccc This book was the acaba ~ ro Pipes 
of which it Rd be ora ded as he fone pute This third part € pagina’ 
expanded fr. . in #740 ved The number of — me ee old dieu 
ve mall, 
