312 HISTORY OF THE RoyAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Giles Munby.! Nicholas Tyacke.® 
Richard Parnell.” George Charles Wallich.® 
_James Ramage. Hewett Cottrell Watson.’ 
William Alexander Stables.* Robert Wight.® 
James Stewart. 
That McNab should thus evoke the goodwill of young 
students as well as of older botanists with whom he journeyed 
on excursions, often in trying circumstances, is telling testimony 
to his capacity and personal worth.® 
1 Giles Munby (1813-76). Algerian Botanist. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc., Edin 
* Richard Parnell (d. 1882). M.D. Edin. 1835. British Agristologist. Orig. 
Memb. Bot. Soc., Edin. 
® Wiliam Alexander sagen Naturalist in ee Scotland. 
* James Stewart. Orig - Bot. Soc., Edi 
. ee eee oe 1900). M.D. Edin. aes Practitioner in Chichester. 
t= Soc. 
* George as ee (1815- 1899). M.D. Edin. 1836. Marine Biologist. 
. Memb. Bot. Soc., Edin. 
ss a Cottrell Watson (1804-1881). Botanical Geographer. 
Robert Wight (1796-1872). M.D. Edin. 1816. Indian Botanist. 
° Here is McNab’s letter of acknowledgment :— 
a 
Royal Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh, Feby. 14th, 1835. 
Sir,—I have taken the liberty of acquainting you that I have this day received 
from Messrs. Mackay and Cunningham the Zoddy /ug with the addition put to the 
inscription of the names of those gentlemen who have conferred on “ this high 
honour, and also an appendage to the Jug of a very handsome Zoddy Lad 
Permit me through you to express to those gentlemen my sincere oad warmest 
thanks. When I accompanied you and the other gentlemen in the excursions to the 
North I was only performing part of my duty, and to have merited in any way their 
approbation was quite as much as I could have expected, but I am quite at a loss for 
words to express my gratitude for this distinguished mark of kindness. I can only 
say that I thank you most truelly, and should it ever fall to my lot and be in my 
power to be of use to any one of the ty, my service will be most freely at their 
command, and may long life and prosperity attend you all, shall ever be the earnest 
wish of, 
Sir, With the Greatest Respect, 
Your Obedient Humble Servant, 
(Sgd.) WILLIAM McNAB. 
To Dr. Balfour. 
