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Dr. George Dickie was born in Aberdeen on the 23rd November, 

 1813, and received his education there, graduating M.A. in Marischal 

 College, in 1830. He thereafter commenced the study of medicine 

 in his native city, completing his medical education in Edinburgh, 

 where he gained the Medal for Pathology and Practice of Medicine 

 in the Brown Square Medical School, in 1833. In 1834 he became 

 M.R.C.S. of London, and in 1842 received the honorary degree of 

 M.D. from King's College, the University of old Aberdeen. 



He originally intended to enter the naval medical service, but 

 abandoned that intention, and entered on medical practice in 

 Aberdeen. His tastes, however, lay very strongly in the direction 

 of natural science, especially botany, and in 1839 he was appointed 

 Lecturer on Botany in King's College ; and subsequently on Materia 

 Mediea and on Zoology, and he further held the office of Librarian to 

 the University. In 1849 he resigned these offices, having been 

 appointed to the newly created professorship of natural history in the 

 University of Belfast ; but in 1860, on the establishment of a professor- 

 ship of botany in that of Aberdeen, he was appointed to it and 

 returned to his native city. Soon after his return he suffered from a 

 severe attack of illness, which resulted in increasing deafness and 

 more or less chronic bronchitis ; but he continued to discharge the 

 duties of the professorship till 1877, when the state of his health 

 obliged him to resign. 



In 1838 he became a member of the Edinburgh Botanical Society 

 (of which he was elected a Honorary Fellow in 1877), in 1863 he was 

 elected F.L.S., and in 1881 F.R.S. He was also a member of the 

 Societe des Sciences ISTaturelles de Cherbourg, and of several local 

 Societies. 



Dr. Dickie began in early life to investigate the flora of the district 

 around Aberdeen, the results of which he published in 1837 ; and 

 from that time onwards he published numerous articles chiefly on the 

 morphology and physiology of plants in the Journals and Transac- 

 tions of scientific Societies. In 1844 appeared his first article on 

 Algse, to which group he devoted more and more of his time, and to 

 which his published articles of late years almost exclusively relate. 

 He also contributed botanical appendices to the works of various 

 Arctic travellers and voyagers and to the reports on the Transit of 

 Venus expeditions, and he worked out the Algee of the " Challenger " 

 expedition. The value and care of his investigations as an observer 

 are attested, and the assistance rendered by him acknowledged, in 

 Harvey's " Phycologia Britannica," Ralf's "British Desmidese," 

 Smith's " British Diatomacese," and Macgillivray's " Natural History 

 of Deeside andBraemar." He was author of " A Flora of Aberdeen " 

 (1838), " The Botanist's Guide to the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff, 

 and Kincardine " (1860), and "A Flora of Ulster" (1864). In all 



