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interesting and replete with knowledge. Mr. Young was 

 ever ready to direct the footsteps of any young naturalist, 

 and would look up and show in his own valuable collection 

 of scientific books anything about which another had a 

 difficulty. In 1887 Mr. Young took a great notion to 

 become a microscopist and for a considerable time he spent 

 his Wednesday evenings with two of the compilers, learning 

 the mysteries of that instrument and its application to photo- 

 graphy. His instrument, which was a valuable one, is one 

 of the many things he bequeathed to the Museum. 



Owing to the death of a brother a few years ago, 

 Mr. Young came into a good deal of private means, which 

 he did not hesitate to use in the interests of his especial 

 work. 



On his death it was found that all his valuable scientific 

 books had been left to the Institution, as well as the sum of 

 .500, the interest of which was to be expended on his 

 favourite division of natural history. 



Mr. Young's trustees have presented a carbon enlarge- 

 ment of him to the Museum, while the Museum Committee 

 lately acquired a painting of him by a local artist. In it 

 Mr. Young is represented as putting the finishing touches to 

 a heron. It is intended that the picture be placed in some 

 prominent part of the building over which he ruled for 

 twenty-six years. It will always be present, but we shall 

 miss his kindly characteristic figure within its familiar haunts, 

 and those who knew him best will long remember him as an 

 eminently lovable and good man. The well-known lines 

 with which we close might surely be his epitaph : 



He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small. 



[The above is communicated by a small Committee of 

 the Paisley Naturalists' Society, consisting of Messrs. 

 Dunsmore, Mure, Taylor, and Finnic, for which we tender 

 our acknowledgments. EDS.] 



