| Activity | MA Edinburgh. LLD 1834. ALS 1807. FLS 1813. FRSE. Became head of the large printing firm of Neill & Co. Vice-president of Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1836. Secretary of Wernerian Natural History Society, 1808, and Caledonian Horticultural Society, 1809-1849. Toured the Netherlands and north of France, 1817. Directed planting of the West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, with 77,000 trees and shrubs, 1820. Had his own garden of exotics, and a collection of live animals. |