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be paid into in London as it comes. I must mention that, as 
President of the Linnean Society, I have never allowed any sub- 
scription whatever to come before the Society as a body, for many 
reasons, but I will do all I can with individuals. Is not Mr. Brodie 
of Brodie likely to assist? I remain, Sir, your obliged and obedient 
servant, J. E. Smiru. 
The subscription list thus commenced was kept up till the 
following August, under the treasurership of Dr. Neill, and a sum 
of about £80 was obtained. Mrs. Don removed to Newburgh, 
and to Mr. Booth, her husband’s friend, was remitted from time 
to time, as required, the sum mentioned above. And it must 
have been well spent. Of the six children of her large family 
of fifteen who survived their father and reached adult age, all 
were brought up respectably, and the five sons followed their 
father’s calling as gardeners. 
The eldest son surviving to manhood, George, who died 
unmarried, eventually became a botanist of no mean repute, being 
a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the author of “ A General 
History of the Dichlamydeous Plants,” founded upon “Miller's 
Gardener’s Dictionary,’ and commonly known as “Don’s 
Gardener’s Dictionary.” The following is the obituary notice of 
him from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society for May 24th, 
1856, p. x¥xxix :— 
GrorceE Don, Esq., was born at Forfar on the 17th of May, 1798. 
He was the eldest son of the zealous British botanist of the same 
name, well known as the discoverer of many of the most interest- 
ing plants of the Scottish Highlands, and a constant correspondent 
of the late Sir James Edward Smith, who in his “English Flora” 
(under “Rosa Doniana”) speaks of him as “one of the most indefatig- 
able as well as accurate of botanists ; who loved the science for its own 
sake, and braved every difficulty in its service.” On the death of 
his father, in 1814, Mr. Don, in conjunction with his younger 
brother, David, made an attempt to carry on the nursery which 
their father had established at F orfar; but the business was shortly 
after given up, the elder brother removing in 1815 to Edinburgh, 
where he was for a time employed in the establishment of Messrs. 
Dickson and Co. In the following year he came to London, and 
after a short engagement at the Portman Nursery succeeded in 
obtaining employment at the Chelsea Botanic Garden, then under 
the charge of Mr. Anderson, with whom he remained as foreman till 
