LANDS BOROUGH

David . b. Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11 Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Stevens ton, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church at Salt coats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White of Ardro an’; received degree of D.D. from an American college 1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839; Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes 1852. d. of cholera at Salt coats 12 Sep. 1854. Arran, by the Lands boroughs father and son (1875), memoir pp. 157–228; Scott’s Fasti , vol. 2, part 1, p. 188 (1868); W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation , iii 715 (1863).