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Dickson.] Botanical Necrology for 1887. 
1862. Professor of Botany at Dublin (University and Royal 
College of Science for Ireland) 1 866-68, in the University 
of Glasgow 1868-79, in the University of Edinburgh and 
Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, 1879-87. Bio- 
graphical notice in Nature, January & 1888. Published 
On a monstrosity in the fruit of Silene injiata ; with some remarks on 
placentation. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. V (1857.) 
On the Compound Mature of the Cormophyte. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VI 
(1858) ; Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1858. 
Remarks on the development of the seed-vessel of Caryophyllaceae. 
Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VI. (1859). The substance of this paper forms part 
of the author’s graduation thesis ‘On the Development of the Flower and 
especially the pistil in the Caryophyllaceae.’ 
Observations on some Bisexual Cones occurring in the Spruce Fir 
(Abies excels a). Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VI (i860) ; Edin. New Phil. Journ. 
i860; Adansonia, II. 
Translation of Baillon’s Organogenic Researches on the Female Flower 
of the Coniferae. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VII (1861). 
Mote upon the preceding Translation, with Observations upon the 
Morphological Constitution of certain Abietineous Cones. Trans. 
Bot. Soc. Edin. VII (1861) ; Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1861 ; Adansonia, II. 
On some of the stages of development in the Female Flowers of 
Dammara australis. Ibid. 
Observations on the Embryogeny of Tropaeolum majus. Trans. Bot. Soc. 
Edin. VII (1862); Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1863. 
On Diplostemenous Flowers, with some remarks upon the position of 
the Carpels in the Malvaceae. Trans Bot. Soc. Edin. VIII (1864); 
Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1864; Adansonia, IV. 
Mote on the position of the Carpellary groups in Malope and Kitaibelia. 
Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VIII (1864). 
On the Morphological Constitution of the Androecium of Mentzelia , 
and its analogy with that of certain Rosaceae. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 
VIII (1865) ; Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. Ill (1865). 
Opening address to the Botanical Society in Edinburgh for Session 
1865-6. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VIII (1865). 
On the phylloid shoots of Sciadopitys verticillata, Sieb. and Zucc. ; read 
before the Botanical Congress, London (1866). Seeman’s Journ. of Botany, 
IV (1866). 
On the staminal arrangements in some species of Potentilla and in 
Nuttalia cerasiformis. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. VIII (1865) ; Journ. of Bot. 
IV (1866). v ‘ " 
On abnormal flowers in Tropaeolum majus . Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. IX 
(1866). 
Motice of an abnormal leaf of Prunus Lauro-cerasus. Journ. of Bot. V (1867). 
On some of the Principal Modifications of the Receptacle, and their 
relation to the ‘ Insertion ’ of the leaf-organs of the Flower. Report 
Brit. Assoc. (1868). 
On the development of the Flower of Pinguicula vulgaris , L., with re- 
marks on the Embryos of P. vulgaris , P. grandiflora, P. lusitanica , 
PI caudata , and Utricularia minor. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. XXV (1869) ; 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. VI (1869). 
Mote : On the embryo of Ruscus aculeatus. Journ. of Bot. VIII (1870). 
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