Botanical Department 
of the 
University of Edinburgh. 
DurinG nearly two centuries the offices of Regius Keeper of 
the Royal Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany in the 
University of Edinburgh have been held by the same person, and 
it has become the custom that the students of the University 
come to the Garden for instruction in Botany. The whole work 
of the Botanical Department of the University is carried out in 
the Garden by the University Staff, which at this date is 
constituted as follows :— 
Professor of Botany . : , William Wright Smith, 
M.A., F.L.S., F.R.S:E. 
Reader in Mycology and Bacteriology Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc., 
ELS, F RSE: 
Lecturer on Forest Botany James Lindsay Salmond 
and Indian Forest Trees . ; . Smith, M.A., B.Sc. 
Lecturer on Botany . : . James Robert Matthews, 
MA. F.US: FREE. 
Lecturer on Plant Physiology Robert James Douglas Graham, 
and Agricultural Botany M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E. 
