IN MEMORIAM—JOHN GRIEVE. 357 
In Memoriam.—Joun Grinve, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.E., F.LS, 
JOHN GRIEVE was born in Glasgow on 27th June, 1827, and was 
educated at the High School, Glasgow (where he distinguished 
himself), and at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, 
taking the degree of M.A, at the former, and that of M.D. at the 
latter. Love of natural history betrayed itself while he was still 
very young, and a present of Buffon’s ‘ Natural History,” some 
kindly assistance from a minister in Dumfriesshire, opportunities 
of observation in the field, and several visits to Sir William 
Jardine’s Museum, all enlarged his ideas and confirmed the natural 
bent of his mind. He joined this Society in 1856. In 1859 he was 
elected a Member of Council. Next year (1860) he contributed 
two papers, and at intervals during a period of twenty-six years 
thereafter, half-a-dozen papers were read by him, most of which 
relate to the invertebrate life in the waters of South-Western 
Scotland, and are published in the Transactions of the Society. 
He frequently exhibited objects at the meetings of the Society, 
the last of these being on 27th March, 1894. A short communi- 
cation was made by him to the meeting on 28th January (see 
page 385), three months before his death, which took place on the 
16th of April, 1896. He was never married. Although not very 
well known among the active members of the Society at the 
present time, they were made aware, by his occasional appearances 
and contributions, of the kindly interest which he took in his 
favourite pursuits, and in the Society. 
In appearance, Dr. Grieve was tall and spare, with a bronzed 
countenance and ample brown beard. He was a very quiet and 
reticent, but kind and warm-hearted man, upright and amiable 
in all his ways, and he will be much missed by those who knew 
him well, 
