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of Glasgow, and the most successful pharmacologists of 

 the world. Into this select assembly James Wilson was 

 admitted on the 11th of April 1812 ; and the election of 

 a member so youthful shews the impression which he 

 had already made on his friend and instructor, Professor 

 Jameson. The meetings were then conducted with a very 

 unassuming simplicity. They were held in the Professor's 

 private residence, and the members sat round a long table. 

 On the 25th of March 1815, Mr Wilson read his first 

 communication. It was a description of what he believed 

 to be a new species of water ouzel, to which he had given 

 the name Aquatilis undulatus. But although the assembly 

 was never very numerous, it would almost appear to have 

 been too formidable an audience for his retiring tempera- 

 ment ; at least, his next communications, on the " Cirl 

 Bunting," and the " Falconidge," are reported as having 

 been read by Professor Jameson or the secretary. 



Thus, from a mildly playful, affectionate childhood, 

 James Wilson grew up to man. And the manner of man 

 he was will be best understood from the following contem- 

 porary sketch, which we owe to the pen of the late Mr 

 J. Gr. Lockhart : — 



" I dined with Professor Jameson yesterday, with a 

 small party of his most distinguished pupils. Amono- 

 these there was one whom the Professor particularly intro- 

 duced me to, a Mr James Wilson, brother to the poet 



