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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Mrs Barwell Carter. 

 By Commander F. M. Norman, R.N. 



By the death, on January 7th 1903, aged 81 years, of 

 Mrs Jane Barwell Carter, oui- Club lost an old honorary 

 member, a true friend, and a notable link with its early 

 history, as she was the last surviving daughter of that eminent 

 Naturalist and Author, Founder, First Pi-esident of the Club, 

 and for so many years its leading spirit, George Johnston, 

 M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



Miss Jane Johnston, in 1848, married Mr Robert Barwell 

 Carter, only son of William Barwell Carter, M.D., of the 

 8th Hussars. After her husband's death, three years after 

 her marriage, Mrs Carter resided for a considerable time in 

 Edinburgh; and finally, in 1871, settled down in her late 

 father's house in Woolniarket, Berwick-upon-Tweed, which she 

 designated "The Anchorage," where she spent the remainder 

 of her life. The house became famous on account of its 

 many interesting associations with the learned Doctor, and 

 relics left by him, which included MSS. of his well-known 

 works, "Flora of Berwick-on-Tweed" (1829, 2 vols.); "History 

 of British Zoophytes"; and that most charming and instructive 

 of all books of the sort that ever were written, " Natural 

 History of the Eastern Borders" (1853, 1 vol.) 



