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SKETCH OF PROF. MACGILLIVRAY'S 

 LIFE AND WORK 



THE MEMORIAL. 



IT is upwards of forty-eight years since William 

 MacGillivray, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Natural 

 History and Lecturer on Botany in Marischal College 

 and University, Aberdeen, son of William MacGillivray, 

 a surgeon in the Army, died in his fifty-sixth year 

 having been born in Old Aberdeen in 1796. He was 

 buried in the New Calton Bury ing -Ground, Edinburgh, 

 where his wife and two children, who predeceased him, 

 had previously been interred. Until nearly the close 

 of last year there was not even a tombstone to show 

 where the author of a History of British Birds and The 

 Natural History of Deeside and Braemar lies, an over- 

 sight resulting no doubt from the circumstance of all the 

 members of his family having, either before his death or 

 soon after, gone for permanent residence abroad. 



Nearly three years ago the attention of some of 

 Professor MacGillivray' s former students all now well 

 advanced in life was called to the oversight which 



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