APPENDIX. 63 



III. Account of the Right Honourable Sir ThoMAS Miller 

 of Gknlee, Bart. Lord Prefident of the Court of SeJJion, and 

 F. R. S. Edin. 



{Read by DAVID HuME, Efq; Advocate, F. R. S. 'EoiiJ.and Pro- 

 feffor of Scots Law in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, Dec. 21. 1789.] 



IT has often occurred to me, as a hard circumflance in the 

 lot of thofe who follow the adlive employments of life, that 

 however great their eminence, however ufeful their labours, 

 nay, however rare and excellent their talents, the remembrance 

 of them dies among their countrymen at large, almoft as foon 

 as they themfelves are gone ; and even with thofe of their own 

 profeflions fcarcely furvives for more than a fingle generation. 

 The records of the Royal Society are therefore in this refpecft 

 valuable, that they afford the means of refcuing from ob- 

 livion, thofe of our Members who, by their profeflional emi- 

 nence and fervices, have merited the gratitude and remembrance 

 of their country, though their line of life did not permit them 

 to attain diflindlion of another kind, by any literary work or 

 difcovery in fcience. 



I THOUGHT it would be univerfally felt and allowed, that 

 the late Sir Thomas Miller, (at one time a Vice-Prefident of 

 this Society), moft juftly fell under the above defcription of a 

 Angularly ufeful man, and fit to be commemorated. And in 

 this perfuafion, I have prepared a fhort account of him, now to 

 be fubmitted to your confideration. 



Sir 



