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for his cousin James Russell. The two stand side by side, 

 alike but different. It is twelve feet in height, and bears 

 the inscription : 



IN MEMORY OF 



GEORGE WILSON, M.D. 



PROFESSOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 



AND 



DIRECTOR OF THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND. 

 BORN FEBRUARY 21, l8l8. 

 DIED NOVEMBER 22, 1859. 



THEM THAT HONOUR ME I WILL HONOUR. 



At its base is the emblem of his " dear Museum," as 

 expressed in more than one printed lecture. " When that 

 Museum shall be erected, I will ask its architect to sculp- 

 ture on its front an emblematical device, namely, a circle, 

 to imply that the Museum represents the industry of the 

 whole world ; within the circle, an equilateral triangle, the 

 respective sides of which shall denote the mineral, vegetable, 

 and animal kingdoms, from which industrial art gathers its 

 materials ; within the triangle an open hand, as the symbol 

 of the transforming forces which change those materials; 

 and in the palm of that hand an eye, selecting the materials 

 which shall be transformed." l 



On the Sunday following the interment, Dr. Alexander 



1 "On the Industrial Museum of Scotland in its Relation to Com- 

 mercial Enterprise. " A Lecture delivered to the Merchant Company of 

 Edinburgh, and printed for private circulation. 



