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armies, were placed under his care. He continued their studies hy 
a course of twenty lectures on forestry in the United College, St 
Andrews, which were attended also by the general students of the 
University, attracted no less by the interesting nature of the subject 
than by the great experience and the sympathetic bearing of their 
teacher. The grounds of Stravithie were studded with rare pines 
and shrubs, and he was ever ready to invite and welcome botanical 
and other visitors to see them. Nature had been lavish in the 
botanical treasures of his neighbourhood, and by judicious planting, 
art greatly increased its amenity. He was one of the leading 
members, and President in 1870, of the Botanical Society of Edin- 
burgh, his presidential address being devoted to a review of the 
advances in botany since he joined the Society in 1839, and a 
summary of the present state of the science in Scotland. The con- 
genial presence of old friends like Sir Douglas Maclagan, the late 
Professors J. H. Balfour, Sir Robert Christison, and others, at this 
Society, and at the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, was to 
him a constant source of pleasure. He was indefatigable in advanc- 
ing the interests of the latter Society, and he was twice President. 
For many years he selected candidates for the Indian Forest-Service, 
and it was his evidence before the Forestry Committee of the House 
of Commons that was mainly instrumental in the formation of a 
Forest Board to promote the proper training of young men for forest- 
service, and which also led in part to the establishment of a Forest- 
Branch in the Engineering College at Cooper’s Hill, Surrey. On 
retiring from the India Office, he received a complimentary acknow- 
ledgment of his services from the Secretary of State, mentioning, 
amongst other things, that all the present forestry-officers in India 
had passed through his hands. For ten years he acted as Examiner 
in Botany in the University of Edinburgh, and no one more assidu- 
ously or more conscientiously performed his duties. For twenty 
years he was also Examiner in Forestry to the Highland and Agri- 
cultural Society. 
No one was more active or more persevering in furthering the pro- 
ject of an International Forestry Exhibition when it was mooted in 
Edinburgh in 1883, and his extensive acquaintance with those most 
likely to aid on the Continent, in America, and in the Colonies, was 
of signal service to the executive. The success of this important 
