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action near Arras. Mr. Sanderson enlisted in August, 1914, 

 as a private in the Inverness-shire Horse Artillery, from 

 which he obtained a commission in the R.F.A. He rapidly 

 rose to the rank of Captain. He commanded his battery in 

 the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded, and in 

 the end of 1916 he returned to France. Captain Sanderson 

 took an active part in the public life of his native town of 

 Galashiels, where he was a partner in the firm of P. & R. 

 Sanderson, cloth manufacturers. He was a keen horti- 

 culturist and botanist and had a fine collection of rock 

 plants. He w T as one of the most active members of the 

 Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, having a keen eye for a 

 fern as well as for a flowering Alpine plant. So far as we 

 know Captain Sanderson is the first actual member of our 

 Society who has died for his country in the war as he was 

 also one of the first to offer himself. He leaves a widow 

 and three children to whom we offer our profound sympathy. 

 It is with deep regret that we announce the death, on 

 March 16th, of our honoured Vice-President, Mr. W. B. 

 Boyd, in his 88th year. His death was mercifully sudden, 

 as we understand he w T as in bis garden on the previous day 

 and the Editor received from him a letter, written in his 

 usual neat and firm hand, dated March 15th and bearing 

 the Melrose postmark of March 16th. In it he says : "I 

 have been in the doctor's hands lately, but am now feeling 

 a good deal better." Mr. Boyd was regarded with esteem 

 and affection by all who came in contact with him on the 

 Society's excursions, in which he frequently joined. He 

 attended the very last meeting in Eskdale in August, 1914, 

 and was then successful in finding a very promising and 

 vigorous plumose form of Lastrea montana. He had many 

 years previously found another plumose form of this species 

 and a wub-plumose form of L. dilatata al^ina. He vyas also 





