OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR CHARLES STUART 173 



warm interest in the life and work of his church. His 

 political views were broad-minded Liberal. 



From early years Dr Stuart was an enthusiastic student 

 of nature — especially of plants and trees, birds, and the 

 phenomena of the seasons. He was an observing man, 

 and, as he drove about the country on professional routes, 

 nothing escaped his eye, and he always had somethiug 

 instructive and interesting to write or say about his observ- 

 ations. 



He was elected a member of our Club on August 16th 

 1854, was President 1873, was a frequent attender at our 

 meetings, and a copious and valued contributor to our 

 Transactions. Having become a Fellow of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, he was elected a member of its 

 daughter Society — the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, in 

 1874, of which he was an enthusiastic adherent, and a 

 persona grata. In fact, he was too enthusiastic, for there 

 is but too good reason to fear that the incipient ailment 

 from which he suffered was aggravated beyond recovery 

 by his injudiciously insisting upon travelling to take part 

 in one of its meetings. 



With that Club he discovered and secured two prizes, 

 viz. a beautiful rose-pink variety of Veronica saxatilis on 

 the Breadalbane Hills, near Killin ; and in Connemara, in 

 1890, a new form of heath, named Erica Tetralix Mackiana 

 Stuartii. 



Dr Stuart's achievements and successes in horticulture 

 were numerous and important, and secured for him many 

 well-deserved honours from Horticultural Societies, among 

 them being the dedication to him of one of the volumes 

 of "The Garden," the leading paper "of that ilk" in 

 England. 



Evidently he devoted his attention to the Pansy very early 

 (his favourite flower), for as long ago as 1854 he was a 

 successful competitor at The Scottish Pansy Society, and 

 in 1859, with the same flower, gained several important 

 prizes at their show. In 1874 he began to turn special 

 attention to hybridising, which was his specialty, wherein, 

 in certain directions, he may be said to have been facile 

 princeps. 



