478 



INDEX. 



Blair, Dr. A. ; correspondence with, when pre- 

 paring Moral Philosophy Lectures, 216-221. 



mentioned, 341, 365, 440, 441. 



accompanies Wilson to the Highlands, 4.18, 



419. 



reminiscences of his friendship with Wil- 

 son, 441-443. 



Blantyre Priory, 21. 



Boating, love of, SS-00. 



Bothwell Banks, 37, 56. 



Boxiug — Wilson "a varra bad nn to lick," 23, 

 45,95. 



Boyd, John, 282. 



Boyhood, 1-14. 



" Breeches Review," the. 276. 



Brewster, Sir David, 171, 411. 



" British Critics," North's Specimens of the, 420. 



Bridges, David, 262. 



Bronte, the dos, 389. 



Brougham, Lord, 94, 252, 409, 411. 



Brown, Dr. John, 292, 372, 373. 



Brown, Peter, Bishop of Cork. 220. 



Brown, Dr. Thomas, 202, 206, 222, 223. 



Browne, Dr. James, editor of the Caledonian 

 Mercury, 323. 



Bryant, Jacob, 219. 



Bull, midnight chase of a. 90-92. 



Ball (John) Magazine, 271, -287, 2SS. 



Burke and Hare, the Edinburgh murderers, 321, 

 390. 



Barney, Charles Parr, Archdeacon of Colchester, 

 49, 74, 345. 



Burns Festival, 415-413. 



Burns, Robert, 158. 



essay on, 394. 395. 



Burnside, Mary, the friend of the "Orphan Maid," 

 395 



Burt.' Dr. John, 463. 



Burton, John Hill, his reminiscences of the 

 Professor and his class, 231-243. 



Byron, Lord, 131, 158. 



paper on his "Address to the Ocean," 422. 



Cab-deiveks on the look-out for Wilson, 423. 



Cadell, T., 144, 200, et seq. 



Caird, the great, and his wife, 127. 



Calder Bank, 21, 34 



Calderwood. 34. 



Calvinu.% attack by, on Drs. M'Orie and Andrew 



Thomson, 171,190. 

 Campbell, Captain Archibald, 142. 

 Campbell, Dugald, of Achlian, 125. 



visit to, 139-144, 146. 



Campbell, Thomas, 345, 358, 379. 

 Canning, George, 271. 



letter from, 2S1, 



visit to Elleray, 284, 285. 



mentioned, 2S7, 288. 



Carlisle, sports at, 94. 



Oarlyle, Thomas, letter from, 322, 323. 



Carter, a speechless, looking after the Professor 



with his horse, 424, 425. 

 Cashel, Mrs. (Grace Wilson), 2, 357. 

 Cay, Sheriff, 121, 181,411. 

 " Chaldee Manuscript," 103, 171, 187. 

 Chambers, Robert, 436, 463. 

 Channing, Dr., 426. 

 Cheese, Rev. Benjamin, 73. 

 Children, the l'rol'essor's love of, 437, 48S, 458, 



460. 

 '/hristmas vacations, 19, 20; his last Christmas 



day, 460. 



" Christopher North," 257. 



letter on, 305. 



portrait of, in his Sporting Jacket, 428. 



Church service, Scottish, 4)33, 434 



"City of the Plague," publication of, 133,137. 



See also 117. 

 Cladich, 401. 



Cleghorn, James, 160-162. 

 Cockburn, Lord, 387, 429, 463. 

 Cock-lighting, 45, 46. 



Cocks, establishment of, at Elleray, 46, 92, 98. 

 Codringtou, Sir Edward, 350. 

 Colburn, Henry, 272. 



Coleridge, Hartley, 307, et seq., 811, 812, 382. 

 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 81, 184 185. 



his Biographia Literaria, 162. 



review of his poetical works, 378. 



College life at Glasgow, 14-26. 



at Oxford, 37-77. See Oxford. 



Collier, Sir F., 341, et seq. 



"Colon6av, Christopher on," origin of, 207, 



20a 



Combe, George, 162. 



Commonplace-books, begun at Oxford, plan of, 



40-43, 67. 



extracts from, in prose and verse, 85-88. 



Composition, habits of, 89S-400. 

 Constable, Archibald, 115, 13S, 102, 283. 

 Coop, the, in the attic, 393. 

 Copleston, Rev. Edward, 220. 

 " Copy, copy 1" 398. 

 Cranstoun, 'Mr., 112, 213. 

 Critic, Wilson as a, 299, 359, 360. 

 Croker, John Wilson, 271, 273. 

 Cruikstone, 87. 

 Cunningham, Allan, 270. 



letters from, 313-31S. 



Cupple, Mr., extract from his "Memorial" of 



Wilson, 386. 

 Curwen, William, 134, 136. 



Dalyell, Sir J. G., 181,182. 



Dasent, Dr., 48. 



Death of a sister, 14. 



— - of W r ilson's father, 14, 15. 



of his mother, 277. 



of his wife, 382, 883. 



of Professor Wilson, 461. 



"Delta," see Moir, Dr. 



De Quincey, Thomas, remarks of, on Wilson's 



pugilistic and leaping attainments, 46-48. 



on his friends at Oxford, 49. 



description of Elleray, 78, 79. 



first meeting with Wilson, S2-84. 



story of the bull-chase, 90-92. 



remarks on Wilson as a naturalist, 92. 



letters to, 101. 118, 324-326. 



mentioned, 134 135, 149, 171, 224, 234, 279, 



291, 336, 441, 468. 



letter from, 274-276. 



friendship with Wilson, 826-828. 



De Tabley. Lord, 821. 



Diarv in 1801, 17. See Memorandum-book. 



Dickens, Charles, 45, 8S8. 



public dinner to. 400. 



" Dies Boreales," composition of the, 432, 433. 

 the last contributions to Blackwood, 449, 



452, 453. 

 "Dilettanti Club," 184 

 "Dim acclivity," the, 421. 

 Disraeli, Benjamin, 293. 

 Dixon, Rev. Richard, 73. 



