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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. Bryce merits and will no doubt receive the thanks of all 
naturalists for the Bill which he is introducing into Parliament to 
secure access to mountains and moorlands in Scotland. The Bill 
should be supported in every possible way by Natural History 
Societies throughout the country, so that some check may be put 
‘upon the selfishness and churlishness of noble and other owners of 
land in Scotland and elsewhere. The attempt to discredit the Bill 
by harrowing descriptions of what might happen if it passed seems 
to be based on an assumption that the Highlands, for example, are 
within easy access of the London “loafer.” 
OBITUARY. 
Joun Hurron Batrour was born at Edinburgh, Sept. 15, 1808. 
Undecided as to his future during his student life, and including 
divinity as well as science among the subjects of study, he at 
length began to practise medicine in Edinburgh. With an early 
developed love of science, he became, under the iufluence of Prot. 
Graham, specially devoted to botany, and lectured on this science 
Glasgow for Kew, Balfour was appointed his successor, and a fe 
years later (in 1846), he succeeded Dr. Graham in Edinburgh 
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