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specimens, &c, he employed aids, of whom I remember two ; the first, 

 in about 1827, I think, was a native of Dundee, a keen algologist, James 

 Chalmers by name, who prepared fasciculi of named Algre, in quarto 

 form, in the disposal of which my father aided him. The other was 

 Dr. J. Klotzsch, who spent some years as the Curator of the Herbarium. 

 Klotzsch was an excellent fellow, a devoted mycologist, and whilst at 

 Glasgow would study no other branch of botany than fungi. . . . Return- 

 ing to Berlin, he took up the study of flowering plants, acquired distinc- 

 tion as a botanist, and became eventually Keeper of the Royal Herbarium, 

 Berlin. The only other aids my father had in Glasgow were my mother, 

 as amanuensis, and myself ; for, having been attracted to botany from 

 my childhood, much of my spare school and college time was devoted to 

 the herbarium. 



" Very soon after the settlement of the herbarium and library in 

 Glasgow botanists from all parts of Europe flocked to it, amongst whom 

 the following eight made the most frequent and longest sojourns, some 

 of them becoming collaborators with the owner : R. K. Greville, 

 G. Bentham, Sir J. Richardson, G. A. Walker-Arnott, W. Wilson, the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, H. C. Watson, and W. H. Harvey. Mr. Bentham's 

 first visit was in 1823, from which occasion he dated his permanent 

 adhesion to botany as an occupation for life. The next (in 1823) was 

 Dr. (afterwards Sir John) Richardson, R.N., the companion of Franklin 

 in his Arctic expeditions, through whom my father was made known to 

 the Lords of the Admiralty, the Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company, 

 and the chiefs of the Colonial Office, thus becoming the recipient of 

 many herbaria made by the officers of these departments, and the author 

 of works published under their authority. It further led to his being 

 asked to recommend young medical men, fond of natural history, from 

 amongst his pupils especially, to embark in their service abroad." 



Numerous interesting associations and important acquaintances made 

 in Scotland must be omitted, but let us take the following paragraph : 

 " In 1828 my father first became acquainted with the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, the mycologist, who was then, I 

 believe, on his way to visit Captain Carmichael in Appin. This led to a 

 very intimate friendship and repeated visits to West Park and Kew. 

 Mr. Berkeley took the same interest in the Fungi of the herbarium as 

 Mr. Wilson did in the Musci, and but for him this order of plants would 

 never have attained its present pre-eminence ; for his zeal induced my 

 father to urge his correspondents in all parts of the world to collect 

 fungi ; with what success is shown by the richness of his herbarium, and 

 the numerous papers on exotic genera and species of the order published 

 by Mr. Berkeley in the botanical journals, in the 1 Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society,' and many other works. Mr. Berkeley also contributed 

 the volume on Fungi to the third edition of Hooker's 'British Flora' 

 (vol. v., p. 11, of Smith's ' English Flora'), and, dying in 1889, he be- 

 queathed his herbarium to Kew, together with the choice of his botanical 

 library. 



" In 1830 Mr. Hewett Cottrell Watson, the most accomplished of 



