xxx vi Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
Carmichael, which contains amongst other matters a complete 
account of its flowering plants and ferns. 
Soon after his arrival at Glasgow my father had a visit 
from Captain Carmichael, bringing with him a collection of 
the mosses of Appin. Of him he writes 1 : c It was impossible 
not to be struck with the varied knowledge he possessed, for 
though in botany he took the greatest delight, yet with almost 
every subject, and especially such as bore any relation to his 
extensive travels, his mind was richly stored. It was in 
examining these minute productions (Fungi and Algae) that 
he spent almost the whole of his life after his retirement from 
active service. And though his attention was wholly confined 
to the parish in which he lived, he was so eminently successful 
that among the Fungi alone he detected more species than 
had been before described as native of the whole of Scotland. 
My last interview with him was in the summer of 1826, when 
I invited him to join an excursion to the Western Islands with 
the students of my class. He met us in our vessel imme- 
diately opposite his residence, when we proceeded to Mull 
and Skye ; thence returning through the Sound of Mull we 
visited Fort William, Ben Nevis, and the majestic scenery of 
Glencoe.’ Captain Carmichael died in the following year. 
The results of his labour in Scotland appear in Part II of the 
4th edition of ‘ The British Flora/ devoted to Algae and Fungi. 
Two manuscript volumes in 4to, ‘ Algae Appinenses ’ and 
‘ Cryptogamiae Appinenses,’ preserved in the Library at Kew, 
testify to his knowledge and skill as a botanist, microscopist, 
and artist. 
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. Richard- 
son, G. A. Walker-Arnott, W. Wilson, the Rev. M. J. Berke- 
ley, H. C. Watson, and W. H. Harvey. Mr. Bentham’s first 
visit was in 1823, from which occasion he dated his permanent 
1 Botanical Miscellany, vol. ii, p. 4. 
