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a handsome silver vasculum chased with the design of a moss that 
had been named after him, in token of their appreciation of his 
lectures. So, too, at the end of his second, he received a similar 
recognition, in the shape of a beautifully bound early edition of Scott’s 
poetical works in ten volumes. 
But his energies were not confined to lecturing : feeling the want 
of a manual on the Scottish Flora to put into the students’ hands, 
he published in time for use in his second course the Flora Scotica 
in two volumes, the outcome mainly of his earlier Scottish expeditions ; 
and in readiness for his third course he produced at his own cost, 
and from drawings made by himself, an oblong folio of twenty-one 
lithographed plates, with descriptions of the organs, &c. of upwards 
of three hundred plants. A copy of this work was placed before 
every two students in the class during that portion of each day’s 
lecture that was devoted to the analysis of plants obtained from the 
garden and placed in the students’ hands for this purpose. I should 
mention that every student was expected to provide himself with 
a pocket-lens, knife, and pair of forceps, aided with which they 
followed the demonstrations of the Professor. I think it may fairly 
be said that these early lectures heralded the dawn of scientific 
botanical teaching in this University. 
Another claim upon the Professor’s energies was due to the fact 
that the botanical class was in a great measure ancillary to that of 
materia medica, a practical knowledge of which latter subject was 
at that time required of all candidates for a medical degree, diploma, 
or licence, by, I believe, all the examining bodies of the United 
Kingdom. Now the Glasgow students of botany were, with few 
exceptions, preparing themselves for the medical profession, and a 
considerable portion of them at that time looked forward to service 
in the army, navy, India and the Colonies, where they would be 
thrown on their own resources for ascertaining the quality of their 
drugs, which had either undergone a long voyage from England, 
or had to be replaced by such substitutes as the practitioner’s know- 
ledge of botany might enable him to discover. The Professor hence 
devoted much time to teaching the botanical characters of the principal 
medical and economic plants. To this end he made large coloured 
drawings of them in flower, fruit, &c., which were hung in the class- 
room when the Natural Orders to which they belonged were being 
demonstrated, and he passed round dried native specimens of them 
