00° THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Accompanied by my wife, we spent a long day on Ben Wyvis, 
only just catching the last train back. Physically he was one of 
the fines 
which faces the title-pa truck me as being a kindly, 
enial, lar rted, unconventional man, doing thoroughly 
whatever he undertook h friend ha 
entertaining accounts of his visit with the Scottish Alpine Botani- 
cal Club to Killarney, where his commanding personality and 
somewhat eccentric habits made him a centre of observation. In 
(Tut, tut, woman, ‘twill do thee good,” being his favourite form 
of persuasion). n one occasion I was much amused by his 
been already mentioned, this work owes its genesis to 
his old schoolfellow, Professor Balfour; I strongly suspect that 
i i ut 
its exodus is also largely due to him, he has scrupulously 
preserved the author’s ipsissima verba. s remarks, a 
a eady inferred, ‘the real passion of Frank Crawford 
been presented to the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh by 
his trustees. 
paid several visits to the Continent, and was 
his firs purpose to the formation of a European herbarium 
containing spirit. 
from the stems, leaves, rhizomes, and roots (if present) were 
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spirit, and photographed in situ ; these 
are not figured, as they furnished ie fen facts. Finally, the 
stomata were examined, stained, and drawn with a mera lucida 
and a magnification of about 900 diameters. 
Nearly twelve pages are devoted to general anatomy, under 
the various headings (transverse section of stems, &c.), explaining 
