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ORIGINS OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
On the 8th February 1836 a meeting
was held at 15 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, the home of Dr John Hutton Balfour
who later became Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of
Edinburgh, and Regius Professor of Botany, Keeper of the Garden and Queen's
Botanist in Scotland. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the
formation of a Botanical Society.
The discussions resulted on
the 17th March 1836 in the institution of the Botanical Society of
Edinburgh. Throughout its auspicious history, the Society has had a
symbiotic relationship with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; the
donation in 1863 of the Society's herbarium of many thousands of specimens
and in 1872 of its valuable library formed the nucleus around which the
Garden's extensive Herbarium and Library have been built.
Field
Meetings are an important part of the Society's programme
Above:
Members of
the Society and Edinburgh University undergraduates identify their collection
following a successful fungal foray at Vogrie, October 2008. © Chris
Jeffree.
Below:
Dr Stephan
Helfer demonstrates the
the key characters of a Russula, Vogrie, October 2006
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