BOTANICAL NEWS. 319 
Jameson, for forty-four years Professor of Chemistry and Botany in 
the University of that city. He was born in Edinburgh in 
er ta i 
al t to England, only 
returning to Quito last year. The ‘‘ Synopsis Plantarum A8quatorien- 
sium,” in two vols., was published at Quito, at Government expense, 
5. D meson is the author 
the late Professor G. A. Walker Arnott. After graduating he pro- 
ceeded in 1856 to the Presidency of Bengal as assistant-surgeon ; he 
arid, treeless, but botanically most interesting inner Himalayan 
tracts on the Upper Indus, Chenab, and Sutlej rivers, which adjoin 
Turkestan and Tibet. During his journeys, under the most difficult 
circumstances, he maintained with great persistence his habit of taking 
copious notes on the spot, and in anner he , 
immense store of valuable information regarding the natural history, 
hi . . 
Society; the Asiatic pig oh of Bengal; the Agri-Horticultural 
; e 
2 . 
extreme north-west corner of the Punjab an the s be ond it, 
which he studied during the Yuzufzai Campaign, 1s contained in his 
Re a ie ee eee ane kas 
* Since identified with P. Vahliana, Lehm. 
