Dr Jcuiies Ruhson Scott. 95 



Dr Scott was liiglil)' esteemed, and he was, from his 

 i;enialit3' of tein{)er and disposition, a general favourite with 

 all classes in the public service and with his numerous 

 friends. 



On the death of a maternal uncle he inherited the estate 

 of Ashtrees in Roxburghshire, and took the additional 

 name of Scott. He was a Commissioner of Supply and 

 Justice of Peace for the county ; and, beiiig fond of 

 arclireological pursuits, was associated with Sir Walter 

 Elliot of Wolfelee in the investigation of old county records. 

 Dr Scott had from his youth an ardent attachment to 

 natural history, especially to botany and ornithology. In 

 1858 ho became a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, and to its Transactions he occasionally contributed. 

 In 1873 he was appointed its President, and delivered the 

 Annual Address at Kelso in the following year. 



Dr Robson Scott was elected a member of the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in 1865, and was for many years an 

 active member of the Council of that Society. He joined 

 our Society in 1875, and was a member of Council at 

 his decease. 



He died, after a very brief illness, at his brother's house, 

 Newton, near Jedburgh, on the 22nd of September 1883, 

 and was buried in Ilownam Churchyard, where many of 

 his forefathers sleep. Dr Scott is survived b}' his widow, 

 two married daughters, and one son, an officer in the 

 3rd Hussars. 



Rev. John Gibson Macvicar, LL.D., D.B., Minister of 

 3Iofat. By the Rev. John M':MuiiTRiE, M.A. 



(Read 12th June 1884.) 



It is fitting that notice should be here taken of a 

 member of this Society, who, tliroughout a long and useful 



life, devoted mucli of his attention to scientific pursuits 



the late Dr Macvicar, who died in the Manse of Moffat on 

 12th February 1884. He was the second son of Dr Patrick 

 Macvicar, minister of St Paul's, Dundee, and was born in 

 March 1801, so that at the time of his death he had 

 nearly completed his 83rd year. He was educated at the 

 grammar school, Dundee, and it is on record that from 



