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extensive literary undertakings were carried on while engaged in 

 the delivery of two courses of lectures in each year, which were 

 attended by many of the most distinguished naturalists of the pre- 

 sent century ; for it is no small part of the praise of Professor Jame- 

 son that so many of his pupils have since risen to high distinction. 

 During all this period, too, he was busily engaged in the formation of 

 a very large collection in the several branches of Natural History, 

 containing, it is stated, nearly 40,0U0 specimens of rocks and 

 minerals geographically arranged; 10,000 specimens of fossils; 

 800 specimens of skeletons and crania ; 8000 birds ; 900 fishes and 

 reptiles ; many thousand insects, &c., together with a fine collec- 

 tion of drawings, casts, models, geological and geographical maps, 

 and instruments for surveying. This museum, in which all the 

 specimens were arranged and placed by his own hands, forms a 

 highly appropriate memorial of the practical character of the man. 



After having filled the Chair of Natural History for half a century, 

 he died at his residence in the Royal Circus on the 19th of April in 

 the present year ; and to show their sense of his distinguished merits 

 the citizens of Edinburgh awarded him a public funeral, which took 

 place on the 2Sth of last month, and was attended by the Members 

 of all the literaiy, artistic, antiquarian and scientific societies in 

 Edinburgh, the different medical colleges, the Senatus Academicus, 

 the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the City. He was a 

 member of a great number of scientific bodies, both at home and 

 abroad; and joined the Linnean Society as early as 1797, being 

 at the time of his death the fourth in seniority on the list of our 

 Fellows. 



George Newport, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. S(C., was born on the 

 14th of February 1803, in the city of Canterbury, where his father 

 carried on the business of a wheelwright, to which he was himself 

 apprenticed at the age of 14. From an early period he began to 

 devote his leisure hours to the study of Natural History ; and in 

 1825 he became a Member of the Canterbury Philosophical Society, 

 and delivered several short Courses of Lectures before the members 

 on Mechanics and on Entomology. On the opening of the Society's 

 new building in 1826, he was elected Curator, and held that oflSce 

 for about two years ; at the expiration of which period his increasing 

 desire for enlarging his knowledge of natural history rendering 

 him anxious to attach himself to a profession in which this taste could 

 be fully indulged, he was apprenticed to Mr. Weekes, a surgeon at 

 Sandwich. After leaving Sandwich he became a Student at Uni- 

 versity College, London, in which he attended the Medical Classes, 



