MEMOIR 



OF 



SIR ROBERT SIBBALD, 



IT would be unpardonable in a work published 

 in Scotland, which professes to include biogra- 

 phical notices of all who have aided the progress 

 of Natural History, to omit the name of Sir 

 Robert Sibbald ; but we regret that, at this 

 distance of time, few facts can be recovered re- 

 specting his personal history during the latter 

 part of his life. In 1695, he committed to 

 writing an account of himself, which came into 

 the possession of Boswell of Auchinleck, Dr 

 Johnson's biographer, who contemplated the 

 publication of it, but this he never performed, 

 and the M.S. is now in the Advocates' Library 

 in this city. It has lately been printed by Mr 

 Maidment in a limited impression of a volume 

 of interesting scraps relative to Scottish history 



