Botanical Society of Canada

[2] By the second meeting, held in January 1861, the Society had 140 paying members, including John A. Macdonald (who would later become Canada's first Prime Minister).

[2] One member, Andrew T. Drummond, published a report on plants which could be used for paper, and exhibited dyes made from lichens.

[3] Another member, a Miss Gildersleeve, followed-up on Mrs. Lawson's research with her own paper, 'Remarks on the silk obtained from lettuce-fed silkworms'.

[1] As part of the Society's mission, a botanical garden was established on the grounds at Summerhill, on Queen's College campus.

[4] Today, Summerhill is the site of Queen's University's arboretum, but stray specimens from the old botanical garden are said to appear unexpectedly in the lawn.