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Mackay (not Dickson & Co.) who made him known to Sir J. 
Smith. Brodie of Brodie recommended Mr. Don to UF Rutherford, 
and he He sub-let Dovecot- 25 and removed to the Botanic 
Garden at Edin". Here he spent 4 or 5 years, hata studying 
medicine and surgery ; and then returned to Forfar, practised as a 
country doctor, renovated his botanical collection of living plants— 
and visited Clova eS adding several new plants to his 
ormer discoveries, and here he died. 
Could you a ssist my Pecaces as to some dates and places? For 
instance. 1. Where was Mr. Don born and what was your grand- 
a 
fam mle came to edinberch 2 you were a stout chap— Dav 
little boy, and also James. Patrick and Charles He born in Leith 
Walk. 4. Do you recollect in what year Mr. Don died and in what 
month Mr. Brown and I visited Dovehill? 5. Could you pais out 
the spot in Forfar Churchyard where your father was buried? My 
opinion is that British botanists ought to mark the spot by a simple 
their deep regret for aspersion cast on his memory, St ey the 
led Hote borealis is called by Sir W us Hooker a 
“valuable discovery by the late acute Mr. G. ties "; but is now 
enied. Potentilla tridentata is in the same predicament : but will 
yet = re-discovered. 
so good as write me fully on all these points. 
Mr. George Don (son of the Forfar Botanist) to Dr. Neill. 
44 Bedford aoe oF ease 
Feby. 2 
My r Sir,—I intended to have written to you ce before 
this, face oun always came in the way to prevent it. James 
and Charles are still in their old situations, the latter got married 
in Sept" or Oct" last, but I have not yet seen his wife. As to 
*See pages 62, 63 of the Memoir in these “ Notes,”— B. 
*See page 63, footnote 2, of the Memoir in these “* Notes. "_T, B. B. 
