Notice of British Naturalists. 139 



His practice was extensive, and it was chiefly as a recreation from 

 his severer duties that he pursued the study of Antiquities and 

 Natural History. He was a man of an active, investigating mind j 

 he had before him a field hitherto altogether unexplored, and in 

 his profession, as well as in these pursuits, he rose to eminence. 

 In the latter part of his life he was knighted, and appointed Phy- 

 sician in Ordinary to King Charles H. He died in 1712. His 



writings are numerous, as appears by the following list of his 

 works : 



I 



Disputatio Medica de variis Tabis speceibiis, Lugduni Batavonim ; 16C1. 4to. 

 Nuncius Scoto Britannus; Edin. 1GS3. Folio. 

 An Account of the Scottish Atlas ; Edin. 1GS3. Folio. 



Scotia Illnstrata, sive Prodromus Historic-e Naturalis, &c. Edin. 1CS4. Folio. 

 An:ain. 1G96. Folio. 



Phalainologia Nova, Slq. ; Edin. 1G92. 4to. ; reprinted at the instigation of Pen- 

 nant in 1773. 



An Advertisement anent the Xiphias, or Sword Fish, exposed at Edinburgh. 

 An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients; Edinburgh, 1693. 12mo. 

 Camden's Britannia, Additions to edition of 1G95. Folio. 



Introdnctio ad Historiam rernm a Romanis gestarum, i&c. ; Edin. 1696. Folio. 

 Auctarium MnsaBJ Balfourani, e Mnseo Sibbaldiauo, &c.; Edin. 1697. 8vo. 

 Memoria Belfouriana, &c. Edin. 1699. 8vo. 

 Provision for the Poor in Time of Dearth, &c.; Edin. 1699. 8vo. 

 An Advertisement anent a rare sort of Whale come in near Cramondj 1701. 

 Coelii Sediilii Scoti poernata sacra ex MSS. &c.; Edin. 1701. 8vo. 

 Georgii Sibbaldi, Regulae bene et salubrila Vivendi, ifcc.^ Edin. 1701. 8vo. 

 Commcntarius iu Vitani, G. Buchanani ; Edin. 1702. 8vo. 

 The Liberty and Independence of the Kingdom and Church of Scotland Asser^ 

 led. Three Parts. Edin. 1703. Ito. 



An Answer to the Second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, &c.; Edin. 

 1704. 8vo. 



In Hippocratis legem et in ejus Epistolam ad Thessalum, Sac. ; Edin. 1706. 8vo. 



Historical Inquiries concerning the Roman Monuments, &c. in N. B.- Edin. 

 1707. Folio. 



The Histories, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Linlithgow and 

 Stirling ; Edin. 1710. Folio, 



rs, &c. which treat of N. B. Two Parts. Edin. 1710. 



Writ 



Folio. 



Miscellanea qua^dam eruditze Anliquitatis, &.c.; Edin. 1710. 



VindiciEe Prodromi Historiae Naturalis Scotise; Edin. 1710. 



History, Ancient and Modern^ of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross; Edin. 

 1710. Folio. 



Reprinted, Cupar Fife; 1S03. 8vo. 



Commentarius in Julii Agricolse Expeditiones ; Edin. 171 1. Folio. 



Conjectures concerning the Roman Ports, &c. in the Friths of Forth and Tay • 

 Edin. 1711. 



Specimen Glosiarii dePopulis etLocisN- B.; Edin. 171 L Folio. 



Series rerum a Romanis^ post avocatum Agricolam, die; Edin. 1711. Folio. 



Description of the Isles of Orkney and Zetland; Edin. 1611. Folio. 



