A 
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE 
OF THE LATE 
PETER EWART, ESQ. 
BY 
WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY, M_D., F.R.S., &G.S. 
It has been the custom of this, as well as of 
most other learned bodies, to commemorate the 
services of those, among its deceased members, 
who have filled its offices of honour, and who have 
contributed to its reputation and to the advance- 
ment of general science. Our volumes are en- 
riched with many such notices of our founders and 
earliest associates, which thus furnish a conti- 
nuous record of the labours and achievements of 
the society itself. These tributes of affectionate 
reverence for the memory of the dead seem espe- 
cially becoming and expedient, when lessons of 
practical wisdom may be gathered from their 
