. Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. s. In losinghim we feel we have lost the last link which connects us withthe inception of our Society, which is now rapidly nearingits centenary. While thus mourning one who loomed so large in the annalsof our own Society we have as botanists, as horticulturists, asarboriculturists to lament the passing of one who made agreat figure in the wide field outside our own special activitiesas a Society. I do not propose to enumerate his works norto sketch his career. With the broad outlines of these we areall more or less familiar
. Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. s. In losinghim we feel we have lost the last link which connects us withthe inception of our Society, which is now rapidly nearingits centenary. While thus mourning one who loomed so large in the annalsof our own Society we have as botanists, as horticulturists, asarboriculturists to lament the passing of one who made agreat figure in the wide field outside our own special activitiesas a Society. I do not propose to enumerate his works norto sketch his career. With the broad outlines of these we areall more or less familiar. more or less detailedhave already appeared in scientific and other journals. WhatI thought more in keeping with this occasion, had timey)ermitted, was to elicit from our members their own recollec-tions, their own impressions, their own opinions of what herepresented to them. As in the old saying^—the child was father of the , according to some, is the capacity for taking inclined to nod assent to such a facile generalisation. Plioto hii] Professor Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour. ]922-23.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 193 we are faced with exceptions which raise the question we have the record of a youth scarcely out of his teens,an Arts Graduate, a Science Graduate, a Vans Dunlop scholar,a member of the Transit of Venus Expedition, a medicalstudent who during his fathers illness conducts the BotanicalClasses with entire responsibility, and is never put out of hisstride, graduates in Medicine in due course, without haste,without rest, and far did he travel. Such a one comes almostfully panoplied—no mere gift of taking pains. I do not knowthat he was addicted to taking pains in the narrow sense,his mind was a solvent of power with keen insight and drivingforce. He was gifted with a sound constitution. I confess Iknew him not in his prime, not till the middle forties. Butan excursion to a Highland Ben with Balfour in the closingye
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