OBITUARY NOTICE OP MRS BARWELL CARTER 89 



Mrs Carter, who was a woman of small stature, but of 

 large mind, extensive reading, and refined and cultivated 

 literary tastes, lived a very quiet, retired life, occupying 

 herself principally with her books and her pen. Her eyesight 

 was so good that she was able to read without glasses till 

 the last. 



Once a year, on the day of the Business Meeting of the 

 Club, her house was open to members, who gladly availed 

 themselves of a chat with their hostess, inscribed their names 

 in her Club- visitors' book, and inspected some of her treasures, 

 among which were many of the original drawings for the 

 illustration of her father's publications, beautifully executed 

 by Mrs George Johnston. On such occasions the set of 

 valuable and artistic paintings of the British Flora, by Miss 

 Dickinson of Norham, were generally also exhibited by their 

 talented painter. 



In 1892 Mrs Carter edited a bulky volume, "Correspond- 

 ence of George Johnston," the preparation of which by her 

 was a labour of much love and interest. Her only brother. 

 Commander Patrick Johnston, R.N., died in New Zealand in 

 1890 ; and one of her two sisters married the well-known 

 and much beloved Philip Maclagan, M.D., of Berwick, an 

 older brother of the present Archbishop of York. 



Mrs Carter was an intimate friend and constant corres- 

 pondent of our late Secretary, Dr Hardy, and she had the 

 prosperity of our Club always much at heart. 



She was laid beside her husband in the family vault in the 

 burying ground of St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. 



