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formation. It will not be surprising, then, that wher- 

 ever men were banded together for the pursuit of 

 knowledge, as far as his opportunities allowed, he 

 joined himself to them. 



It has been already stated that in 1852 he became 

 a member of the recently instituted Natural History 

 Society of Glasgow. He was for several years a 

 member of council, twice or thrice vice-president, and 

 from 1887 to 1890, the president of that society. In 

 1859, he joined the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 

 of which he continued to be a member for eighteen 

 years. He entered the Geological Society of Glasgow 

 also in 1859. Ten years later, that is, in 1869, he was 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. 

 In 1874, he published, together with Messrs. Brady and 

 Crosskey, a monograph of the post-tertiary entomos- 

 traca of Scotland, including species from England and 

 Ireland, in the annual volume of the Palaeontographi- 

 cal Society ; and in that year we find the secretary, 

 the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, thanking him for his zeal 

 in obtaining other subscribers to the highly important 

 series of publications which that society has so long 

 been issuing. In 1876, he was elected a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society. 



For many years he was one of the trustees of the 

 Andersonian Museum, who, by the whimsical will of 

 the founder, meet on the longest day and on the 

 shortest day of the year, and are instructed to regard 

 their honorary office not as a trouble but a great 

 distinction. 



In 1865, he very unexpectedly received from Vienna 

 the honour of the following diploma : 



