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{Enclosure. | 
James Ramsay to Messrs. Henderson. 
Forfar, 7th April 1851. 
Messrs. Henderson & Sons. 
Dear Sirs,—I have communicated your letter of 24th ult. to the 
Magistrates and others and find there will be no ee to the 
proposed Monument to the memory of the late Mr. 
ome of his acquaintances here say they can point ‘ott the spot 
where he was buried, and if the arene not placed over his 
h 
up ‘will satisfy any one of this 
Seeing the Old Church- Yard is now shut up, and not in any way 
resorted to, being so unfit for a place of recreation, a considerable 
number of influential people here are of the opinion that the proper 
place for the erection would be the Wew Cemetery where an appro- 
priate site would at once be obtained. You might mention ade to 
ade 
I am Dear Sirs 
Yours truly 
(Signed) Jas. Ramsay. 
For permission to print the following copy of a manuscript in the 
writing of Mr. William M‘Nab I am also indebted to Miss M‘Nab. 
It is interesting as giving us some idea from George Don himself of 
the extent of his collection of plants at Forfar, and it bears out 
what I have said in previous pages regarding the valuable informa- 
tion upon horticultural and botanical history that would be avail- 
able should Dr. Neill’s papers be discovered :— 
Notes rrom Mr. Dons Letters to Mr. New 3 & 4 Dec. 1812. 
My Botanic Garden where I keep my Collection of Herbaceous 
Plants and a plant of each kind of Tree and Shrub is measured one 
oad but perhaps it is a large one. I entered to it at Whitsunday 
1796. I have a lease for 99 years of Charles Gray Esq’ of Carse. 
My Collection at present consists of the following vz 
of Grasses cluding Carexes and the — 350 
Remarkable vari : 
Annuals different species : . . to EE5O 
