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Postscript by Mr. A. P. Stevenson of Dundee. 
Mr. Knox, in his sketch of Don, which in the first instance 
was communicated to the Perthshire Society of Natural Science 
on January 6th, 1881, pleaded strongly for some memorial to 
George Don, even “a simple stone to mark the spot where his 
ashes rest.” Nothing practically was done, however, till 1902, 
when Mr. Knox was fortunate enough to enlist the sympathy 
and enthusiasm of G. Claridge Druce, Esq., the President of the 
Pharmaceutical Conference held at Dundee in August, 1902. 
Mr. Druce, in his Presidential address, dealt with Scottish Botany, 
and devoted a large part to George Don and his work. A 
movement was then inaugurated for the erection of a memorial, 
and the following extract from the Dundee Advertiser of October 
17th, 1903, tells of its success :— 
FORFAR. 
DON MEMORIAL FUND. 
A joint meeting of the members of the Field Club and sub- 
scribers to the Don Memorial was held in the Town Hall last 
night to consider and resolve as to the form and site of the pro- 
posed memorial. Mr. John Knox, President of the Club, who 
Occupied the chair, gave an interesting account of the history of 
the movement to erect a monument to the memory of George 
Don, Forfar’s self-taught botanist. Recently two gentlemen 
from Dundee—Mr. Kerr and Mr. Cumming—had called upon 
him (Mr. Knox), and stated that the Committee of the Dundee 
Pharmaceutical Conference had managed things so well that 
they had a surplus of £5, which they had to devote to some 
object, and they proposed to allocate it to the Don Memorial. 
He had also received £5 from the Forfar Field Club, a similar 
sum from the late Sir Thomas Thornton, and with other sub- 
Scriptions he had now a total of £105 in his possession. The 
unanimous recommendation of the Field Club was that the 
memorial should be erected in the Reid Park, Forfar, in accord- 
ance with the practice that prevailed in other places, although, 
in his own view, there ought also to be some small memento 
Placed over Don’s grave in the parish churchyard. Mr. R, F. 
Myles moved that a Committee be appointed to wait on the 
Town Council in order to ascertain if they approved of the action 
