IIL A Biographical Account of Mr William Hamilton, 

 late Profejfor of Anatomy and Botany in the Univerfity of 

 Glafgow. By RoBERl Cleghorn, M. D. F. R. S. Edin, 

 Ledurer in Chemijlry in the Univerfity of Glafgotv. 



[Read 6th Nov. 1792.] 



IN writing the life of a perfon who himfelf publifhed nothing, 

 it is extremely diiEcult to fatisfy the expedlation of his par- 

 ticular friends, without incurring the charge of adulation' from 

 the reft of the public. How far I have fucceeded in doing ju- 

 ftice to Mr Hamilton's merit, without infenfibility or exagge- 

 ration, muft be determined by thofe who knew him, and by 

 ihofe who can appreciate the worth of fuch profeffional remarks 

 as I fhall lay before them in the fequel. Mr William Ha- 

 milton was born in Glafgow July 31. 1758*. Having fi- 

 nifhed the ufual courfe at the Gramiiiar School, he went to 

 Glafgow College in 1 770, and continued there ftudying with 

 great diligence till 1775, when he became Mafter of Arts at the 

 age of feventeen. 



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• His father was Mr Thomas Hamilton, an eminent furgeon, and profeflbr of 

 anatomy and botany in Glafgow ; his mother Mrs Isabel Anderson, daughter of 

 Mr Anderson, formerly profeflbr of church-hiftory in the Umverlity of GJafgow. 



