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High Church party, would have looked upon Mr. Kingsley's opi- 

 nions aa far more nearly orthodox than those of the Maurician 

 creed. One thing is plain, that he viewed with the most profound 

 aversion that which Mr. MacColl has called " The caricature of 

 Christianity which the Calvinistic system substituted for the old 

 Catholic theology," and that he looked upon modei-n Puritanism 

 and its repulsive eschatology as the cause of the gravest injury to 

 the Church. This, however, is not the place to discuss theo- 

 logical questions or opinions. Whatever Mr. Kingsley's views 

 may have been, his memory will be revered as that of one of the 

 brightest, the kindest, the most manly of mankind. Few men 

 loved so many things and people. He loved all inanimate and all 

 animal nature ; he loved and honoured a man wherever he met 

 him, so long as he was vigorous, straightforward, and honourable : 

 and before and above all things he loved the great English nation, 

 of which he was a most characteristic product : he loved its laws, 

 its institutions, its Church, and the good men of every class con- 

 tained in it ; and above all, he loved the heroic and magnani- 

 mous chapters in its history, and wislied that peace might be 

 within its walls and plenteousness within its palaces. His death 

 has deprived many persons in all classes of society of a valued 

 friend, and has removed prematurely from English literature a 

 writer who can ill be spared. 



Canon Kingsley was elected a Fellow on the 16th of December, 

 1856. 



"William Macdonalb, M.D., F.E.S.E., was Professor of Na- 

 tural History in the University of St. Andrews. At an early age 

 he inherited the property of Ballyshear, one of the finest estates 

 in Kintyre, Argyllshire, and devoted himself to improving his 

 native county at the expense of a large portion of his private 

 fortune. He will be gratefully remembered by the residents of 

 Kintyre and their descendants for his liberal and successful ex- 

 ertions in securing a system of free public roads unequalled in any 

 part of Scotland. At an early age he studied medicine in Edin- 

 burgh, and passed with honours, but he never practised, although 

 he was always deeply interested in the science. In the year 1849 

 he was offered, and accepted, the Chair of Natural History in the 

 old College of St. Andrews, which position he filled for twenty- 

 four years. He was a member of nearly ail the principal scien- 

 tific Societies iu Great Britain, and at the time of his death was 



