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of Aberdeen,' aided, it is believed, by his father, who had au 

 extensive iiuowledge of the botany of the district. 



The death of the father forced upon the son, at the time a 

 student, the necessity for earning his livelihood ; and he accord- 

 ingly forsook his desire to devote himself to science, and early 

 emigrated to Victoria. He at first practised in Williamstown. la 

 1857 he was appointed Surgeon to the Bendigo Hospital, in which 

 place he died of erysipelas on July 9th, 1895, in his 62nd year. 



As a surgeon and physician he earned a considerable reputation 

 and popularity ; but in his later life his devotion to Zoology 

 reasserted itself, with especial reference to the study of the 

 Polyzoa, on which he commenced to publish in 1859. Of these 

 he described many new forms, both recent and fossil, and in so 

 doing contributed largely to McCoy's ' Prodromus of the Zoology 

 of Victoria.' At the time of death he left well nigh completed 

 an extensive monograph on the ' Polyzoa of Victoria,' to be pub- 

 lished by the Royal Society of that Colony. He inherited his 

 father's capacity for writing ahead of his time. He was an ener- 

 getic member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, and 

 took special interest in the Bendigo Science Society, the Bendigo 

 School of Mines, and other institutions, as well as in general 

 educational and scientific progress at the Antipodes. 



He graduated M.A. of Aberdeen in 1854, and was in 1889 

 presented with the Honorary LL.D. of that University in recog- 

 nition of his merits. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 2nd December, 

 1880. 



Alexander Macmillan was born at Irvine in Scotland in 1819, 

 and, after engaging in teaching, joined his elder brother Daniel 

 as booksellers and publishers in Cambridge. Daniel had been 

 in the house of the Seeleys, then in Fleet Street, and brought 

 exceptional qualifiGations for the up-hill work of establishing a 

 publishers' shop in a University town. This was upon the nucleus 

 of Newby's bookshop in Trinity Street ; and they were much 

 helped by a loan of £500 from the Hares (Julius, Augustus, and 

 Francis), with whom Daniel had become acquainted in 1840, and 

 soon gained footing with some of the leading literary men in the 

 University. At this time the leading bookshop was carried on 

 by Messrs. Deighton, Bell, & Co. The partner Bell was in the 

 London branch ; Deighton was an elderly man of recognized 

 position, but without enterprise. 



In 1857, only a few years after the young men had started 

 business, the elder died, leaving a young family. The whole 

 weight of the business now fell to Alexander Macmillan ; and by 

 this time it had become so well established that it only needed the 

 good business capacity of the younger partner to develop it. He 

 worked desperately hard, and opened a branch in Bedford Street, 

 Strand, which soon became the head oflace. 



Macmillaus were appointed publishers to Cambridge University 



