BIOGRAPHICAL. xiii 
inscription:—“ Presented to Alexander Russell Duguid, 
Ksq., M.D., L.R.C.S.E., on the occasion of his complet- 
ing 50 years’ practice as a physician in Kirkwall, by 
his friends and acquaintances, and the community in 
general, as a mark of the respect and esteem in which 
he is held for his long and able services.” 
Dr BOSWELL. 
As I do not wish to do any injustice, from lack 
of the requisite knowledge, to such an honoured name 
as that of Dr Boswell, I shall take the liberty of 
copying an excellent monograph to the distinguished 
botanist and entomologist as it appeared in the 
“Scottish Naturalist,’ vol. ix., p. 243:—“We record 
with regret the death, on 5lst Jan. 1888, of Dr John 
Thomas Irvine Boswell Boswell of Balmuto, Fife- 
shire, perhaps better known as Dr J. T. Boswell 
Syme. He was the son of the late Mr Patrick 
Syme, of Edinburgh and Dollar, who married Miss 
Boswell, a daughter of Lord Balmuto, a Lord of 
Session, and for many years Sheriff of Fife. Dr 
Boswell was born in Edinburgh in 1822, and edu- 
cated at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University. 
He qualified as a civil engineer, and while engaged 
in surveys on the west coast of Scotland he oceupied 
his leisure time in dredging and botanising. After 
a few years he gave up the profession of civil 
engineer and turned his attention entirely to the 
study of natural history, a science for which he 
had shown a remarkable aptitude from childhood. 
In 1849 he visited his brother-in-law, Mr Fortescue 
of Swanbister, Orphir, where he made a collection of 
