290 Monument in Memory of the Botanist Douglas. 



bution, which, they have reason to believe, would not be agreeable 

 to the Douglas family." 



The extended range which Mr. Loudon gave the Subscrip- 

 tion Lists, and the general notice called to the subject through 

 France and Germany as well as Britain, induced the existing 

 Committee to avail themselves of a previous regulation in adding 

 to their numbers for forwarding the undertaking, and sharing 

 the responsibility; and, at a meeting of the Committee on the 

 24th of February, 1837, several practical gardeners' names were 

 added to the Committee. It was also thought advisable to so- 

 licit the countenance and cooperation of some of the higher 

 classes; and the zeal and efficiency by which Colonel M. Bel- 

 shes of Invermay had promoted the interests of the Perthshire 

 Royal Horticultural Society pointed him out as one likely to 

 forward the interests of the undertaking, and the result has 

 amply justified the anticipation. Sir P. M. Thriepland, Bart., 

 too, a warm friend of the Perthshire Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety, with Lord Stormont, then member for the county, were 

 also nominated as members of Committee, and, on being written 

 to, they cordially agreed to become members. 



After this every means was used to promote the subscription 

 throughout Perthshire, and some influential agricultural bodies 

 were memorialised on the subject, it will be seen with how little 

 effect, when it is stated that the sums which reached the trea- 

 surer's hands amounted only to 161/. 125. on the 12th of July, 

 1839, on the whole. 



After some unsuccessful applications for ground on which to 

 build the monument, it was resolved at a meeting of Committee 

 held on the 22d November, " that the monument should be 

 erected in the churchyard at Scone." 



On the 10th of June, 1840, a Sub-Committee was appointed, 

 Colonel M. Belshes of Invermay, convener, to negotiate with the 

 heritors of Scone as to the site, and to take charge of the work 

 as it proceeded. Great praise is due to the heritors for the liberal 

 spirit in which they met the wishes of the Sub-Committee. 



On the 29th of July, 1841, the Sub-Committee, having previ- 

 ously settled with the heritors as to the site, and with the Messrs. 

 Cochrane as to the erection of the monument according to the 

 design furnished by them, and approved of by members attending 

 at a general meeting of subscribers, met at Scone churchyard 

 " for the purpose of depositing, near the foundation, memoranda 

 that may tell the men of far distant ages of the passing events 

 of the present day." Colonel M. Belshes, whose chaste taste, 

 untiring zeal, and sound judgment, have rendered the labours 

 of the other members of Committee comparatively easy, depo- 

 sited, in a cavity made in a stone for the purpose, a paper con- 

 taining a portrait and biographical notice of the late Mr. David 

 Douglas, furnished by J. C. Loudon, Esq., Bayswater, a copy 



