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there he generally worked about five days a week at his business, 
devoting the rest to botanical exploration, thus being enabled to 
penetrate into the Highlands as far as to Ben Lomond. During 
the period of residence in Glasgow he noticed Lythrum Salicaria 
and Lycopus europeus near Paisley, and Scirpus maritimus near 
Dumbarton. 
He afterwards went to Dupplin Gardens, where a relative was 
in charge, and there he remained during several years and 
received his training as a gardener, using his scanty leisure to 
explore the Ochils, and even the spurs of the Grampians, thus 
obtaining a good knowledge of the Scottish flora. When at 
Materia Medica, wished to teach Botany as well. Hamilton objected, and 
the Faculty of the College, after hearing statements from both sides, 
declared that no one connected with the College had a right to teach Botany 
without Hamilton’s permission and appointment ; and that, if a Professor 
did not teach or name a substitute to teach for him, the Faculty had a right 
to oblige him to adopt one or other alternative, failing which, the Faculty 
had a right to appoint a substitute. A few days later the Faculty added a 
further deliverance that no Professor, when unable to teach himself, had a 
right to appoint a substitute without their consent. 
“William Hamilton was Professor of Botany and Anatomy from 1781 to 
1790. The minutes show that he was specially careful about the Botanic 
Garden, taking pains to obtain a good gardener, and procuring allowances 
from time to time for manure, loam, plants, tools,&c. He also hada hothouse 
of his own in the Garden. There is no mention of his having any teaching 
assistant. Looking to the declaration of 1779 that the consent of the 
Faculty was necessary to the appointment of a substitute, and to the fact 
that when a substitute was appointed in 1799 the transaction was duly 
minuted, it would seem that the Professor must have been in charge of the 
Botany class in William Hamilton’s time, though it is conceivable that he : 
might have had a private assistant for subordinate duties. 
“ James Jeffray became Professor of Anatomy and Botany in 1790, and his 
Catalogues of the Botany class from 1791 to 1798 are still extant. In 1799 
omas Brownt (M.D. Edin. 1798) [referred to by Dr. J. E. Smith in 
English Botany under Valeriana pyrenaica, plate 1591, as Dr. Brown, 
Lecturer on Botany in the University of Glasgow] was, on the recommen- 
dation of Jeffray, allowed to conduct the Botany class. Next year Jeffray 
was allowed to employ Brown to teach Botany so long as it should be 
expedient. On a representation made by Brown in 1804, orders were given 
for the payment of an annual allowance of £5 in use to be made for manure, 
Seeds, &c., for the Botanic Garden. About 1808 Brown seems to have 
Ceased teaching. In 1809 an allowance of £20 was made to Jeffray for plants 
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