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The Committe for the Study of the Scottish Flora was set up in 1953 to co-ordinate the activities of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (now the Botanical Society of Scotland) and the B.S.B.I. in Scotland, with each society appointing an equal number of members to the committee. In 1953, B.L. Burtt was appointed its Chairman, and Basil Ribbons its secretary. By 1976 the partnership was under-strain with the Scottish members of the B.S.B.I. eventually voting to replace the C.S.S.F. with the BSBI Committee for Scotland with a BSBI Scottish Newsletter establish to tackle communication problems. (BSBI News 138, April 2018, pp.70-1)

Created sculptures for the RBGE Arid House between 1998 and 2000.
(right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16949031.obituary---mo-farquharson-sculptor-known-scottish-memorial-miners/

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Probationer Gardener at RBGE, went on to post in Kingston, Jamaica.

James Robert Anderson, 1841-1930, the son of A.C. Anderson, left Fort Nisqually in 1850 to attend school in Victoria for two years. He returned in 1858 and remained until his death. He was an accountant and businessman, and from 1894 until 1908, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture. He had a keen interest in natural history. His father, Alexander C. Anderson, was an early B.C. land surveyor. (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/anderson-james-robert-1841-1930

Chartres Cecil Pemberton, 1864-1943, was a barrister, law clerk to the legislature, aboriculturalist and realtor. (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pemberton-c-c