PRINCIPAL GARDENERS—WILLIAM MCNAB. S17 
McNab pursued the search of the rarer plants on the hills of 
Scotland, of his untiring energy, and of his helpfulness to the 
young students eager to learn ; and the regard in which he was 
held by those who were associated with him found tangible 
expression in a gift from some of those who had accompanied 
him on such expeditions. The occasion was in’ 1834. Prof. 
Graham, having with him McNab, had made excursions to 
Clova in 1831, to Sutherlandshire in 1832, and again to Clova 
in 1834, and several of those who had been at one or other or 
all of the excursions initiated the proposal of a testimonial 
to McNab.! The list of subscribers is an interesting one, 
containing names that are now familiar to all botanists as of 
those who have done sterling service to Botany, and I make no 
excuse for including it here. It runs :— 
John Hutton Balfour.? E. B. Field. 
Martin Barry.* David Graham. °® 
William Brand. 4 Robert Graham. 
Hugo Tod Spalding Beveridge. Joseph Dalton Hooker.!° 
William Hunter Campbell.é Thomas Ivory. 
Edward Charlton.? James Macaulay.!! 
William Christy.* John Melrose. 
* «We understand that on the last night of the year a few young botanists gave a 
supper in Menzies’ Tavern to Mr. William McNab, the talented and worthy super- 
intendent of our Botanic Garden, and presented him on the occasion with a hand- 
Some piece of plate, in the shape of a toddy-jug, bearing an inscription expressive of 
their esteem for him and of their gratitude for his uniform kindness and assistance to 
them during their various excursions with Professor Graham among the Scottish 
Alps.” —Zdinburgh Evening Courant, Monday, January 5, 1835. 
* John Hutton Balfour (1808-84). Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
rae and Professor of core. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc., Edin, 
* Mart ). M.D. Edin. 1836. Embryologist. Orig. Memb. 
Bot, Sou: Edin. 
* William Brand (1807-69). W.S. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc., Edin. 
° Hugo Tod Spalding Beveridge, M.D. Edin. 1841. 
ee. ies Hunter Campbell (1814-53). teen in British Guina. Orig. Memb. 
¥ Baward Chariton (1814-74). M. ne 1836. Prof. of Medicine, University 
of Durham. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc., 
* William Christy (d. 1839). rane in nS. England. 
° David Graham and Robert Graham. Sons, I believe, of Prof. Graham. 
*° Joseph Dalton Hooker, G.C.S.1.,O.M. The only survi survivor. Nestor of Botanists. 
*t James Macaulay, M.D. Edin. 1838. Practitioner in London 
