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At the end of each session, the Professor published the statis- 

 tics of his Botanical Class — giving the number of students, 

 lectures, etc. As giving some idea of the amount of work done 

 in the course of three months by an enthusiastic Professor, we 

 extract the following from the Statistics of the Botanical Class 

 of 1867, which may be taken as a fair general type of the work 

 annually done : — 



" Number of Lectures, 60 ; Practical and Histological Demonstrations, 

 56; Monthly Competition Examinations, 3 ; Weekly Examinations, 10; 

 Saturday Excursions, 11. The following were the Excursions: 1, Roslin 

 and Hawthornden ; 2, King-horn and Burntisland ; 3, Gorebridge and Tyne- 

 head; 4, Midcalder and Carrie; 5, St Andrews; 6, Perth and Bridgc-of- 

 Earn ; 7, Kirkcaldy and Linlithgow ; 9, Heriot and Borthwick Hall ; 10, 

 Dirleton and North Berwick ; 11, Callander and Ben Ledi. 



"Numbers of species collected during the excursions: — Phenognmous 

 Plants, 625 ; Ferns and their Allies, 36 ; Mosses and Hepaticre, 140 ; 

 Lichens, Algge, and Fungi, 90: Total, 891. 



"Number of miles travelled by railway, steamboat, and walking, 650. 

 The numbers at the Excursions varied from 45 to 90. Total expense of 

 trips, £1 8s 8d. A party of 12 botanised in the district near Dalwhinnie, 

 from the 5th to the 10th August, 1867. They visited the Sow of Athole, 

 the Boar of Badenoch, Ben Aulder, Loch Ericht, Loch Laggan, Aberarder, 

 etc. The miles travelled were 350; thus making a total for the session of 

 1000. The number of additional species and varieties collected amounted 

 to 60 ; making a total of 951 during the session. Expense of trip 1 o 

 Dalwhinnie, 56s." 



There was scarcely a district of any note in Scotland he had 

 not visited ; and during these excursions he not only discovered 

 new stations for rare plants, but even many new species were 

 discovered. He kept a careful diary of all his wanderings, and 

 of the many plants collected. On these occasions, his Sundays 

 after chapel hours, were always spent visiting the inhabitants, 

 ministering both to their temporal and spiritual necessities. 



He was ever ready to do anything which would in any way 

 advance Botanical science. In 1870, having an excursion to the 

 Breadalbane Mountains, when seated on the top of his favourite 

 mountain Ben Lawers, he conceived the idea of forming a Scot- 

 tish Alpine Botanical Club ; and the same evening, in the Bridge 

 of Lochay Inn, Killin, the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club was 

 instituted. He took a deep interest in this Club, and was 

 President till he died. He was always present at its meetings 

 so long as his health permitted. His last Alpine Botanical ex- 

 cursion was with this Club to Tyndrum in 187-5. On the second 



