the Geological Society of Glasgow, the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists and the Natural History Society of Glasgow. He also co-founded the Microscopial Society of Glasgow, which was instituted in 1884. He was also a Fellow of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, becoming its honorary treasurer in 1883. In 1891, he revised The Clydesdale Flora, originally written by Roger Hennedy in 1865. Death With his sister at his bedside, King died at the Gordon Arms Hotel in Fochabers, Moray, on 14 September 1896. He had fallen ill with pleurisy five days earlier while attending the annual conference of the Cryptogamic Society. Aged 62, he was buried at Paisley Abbey on 18 September. He was survived by a sister, to whom he wrote letters about his rekindled love of botany while he was in Chile. James Stirton and John Stevenson wrote an obituary for King in the following year's The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Bibliography The Clydesdale Flora References 1834 births 1896 deaths People from Renfrewshire Scottish botanists Scottish writers Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Strathclyde