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know, but in the Winch Correspondence there is a letter from 
Don dated from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, on 
December 3, 1805, and another one dated from Forfar on 
December 6, 1807. The removal took place, therefore, some- 
where between these dates,1 when he devoted himself to the 
practice of medicine as well as continuing his business as a florist, 
as is evidenced by a letter he sent to Mr. Booth,? brewer, after- 
wards schoolmaster, of Newburgh—who wrote the article on 
“Brewing” in the “Penny Cyclopedia” and compiled the 
“Interest Tables” which aré to be found in almost every bank 
office—in which he says he sends him a powder for scrofula,* 
intimate friend of the author of “ Political Justice,” of a man who, as Pro” 
fessor Dowden says, ‘‘ was in principles a republican.” To every impartial 
reader of what is set forth regarding Don in these pages the reason for 
Don’s resignation will be apparent, and it is that suggested by Mr. Knox 
and Mr. Druce. By nature and by habit of life Don was not suited to the 
environment in which he found himself in Edinburgh, and one need suggest’ 
neither jealousy on the part of the Professor nor resentment on the part of 
Don as determining factors in the case.—/. B. B. 
* Probably at the end of 1806 or beginning of 1807. He was at the Botanic © 
Garden in the early part of 1806, when he received a premium from the 
Highland and Agricultural Society for an essay on Grasses. (See p. 191 of 
these ‘‘ Notes.”) In the letter of December 6, 1807, he says, ‘‘ Since my 
return to Forfar I have made several excursions and found a good many new 
plants,” from which we may infer he had been at Forfar during the plant 
season of 1807. The Pipe Roll unfortunately does not mention the name of 
the Gardener in any of the years during which Don was at the Royal Botanic 
Garden. The wage of the Gardener in each of the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 
is passed at forty pounds. In the year 180 it is stated at fifty pounds, and 
there is a grant of sixteen guineas to the Gardener “for Extra Expense.” 
Could this have to do with Don’s leaving the Garden? In the year 180f the 
wage is again forty pounds.—/. B. B. 
* Mr. Booth was a friend of Wm. Godwin. His wife, Isabel Baxter, the 
daughter of a Dundee manufacturer, was the girlhood friend of Mary God 
win, afterwards wife of the poet Shelley. Mary Godwin was a frequent 
visitor to the Baxters in Dundee, and Mr. David Booth is well described in _ 
Professor Dowden’s “ Life of Shelley.’—A P. Stevenson, Dundee. 
3 Botanic Garden, Forfar, November 19, 1812. 
DEAR Sir,—I have procured two volumes of botanical plates with some 
difficulty. I have given my line to David Mudie, and Mr. Roberts has 
become bound for me that they shall be returned at the end of two months, 
and then I shall endeavour to procure the other when you return the two 
just now sent. I have sent the powder for scrofula with directions. 
I will thank you to send the Jasmine fruticans and reins latifolia, and 
