The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 42] 1902 [APRIL 



THE LATE DR. CHARLES STUART OF 

 CHIRNSIDE. 



WE much regret to record the death of Charles Stuart, M.D., 

 of Chirnside, one of the best-known naturalists of the Eastern 

 Borders, and one of the few remaining links with a past and 

 famous generation of North Country naturalists. He had 

 been in failing health for some two years, and succumbed 

 to a more than usually serious attack of illness on the I 2th 

 February last, having attained an age of seventy-six years. 



Closely connected with the noble and ancient family of 

 Murray, Dr. Stuart was born at Woodhall, Midlothian, in 

 1825; he was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and 

 subsequently at Edinburgh University, taking his degree in 

 1846, and entering upon a medical practice at Chirnside, 

 in Berwickshire, some two years after his qualification. 



Shortly before that time the Eastern Borders had become, 

 under the leadership of Dr. George Johnston of Berwick and 

 others, the scene of exceptional activity in natural history, 

 and we need only mention to ornithologists the names of 

 P. J. Selby of Twizell, Sir W. Jardine of Jardine Hall, W. 

 Brodrick of Belford, and T. Jerdon of Jedburgh, to geologists 

 those of D. Milne Hume of Milne Graden and G. Tate of 

 Alnwick, to botanists and horticulturists those of the two 

 Bairds, the Messrs. Boyd, Drs. P. W. Maclagan and J. 

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