SKETCH OF LIFE AND WORK 5 



tablet, including its frame, with flat pilasters at the 

 sides and the cornice, are of oak. Every detail of the 

 work is beautifully finished ; and it is difficult to 

 conceive a finer specimen of art of the kind, whether 

 in design or in execution. 



An extremely interesting ceremonial took place in 

 Marischal College on 20th November last, when the 

 tablet was formally unveiled and presented to the 

 University by Dr. John Forbes White on behalf of 

 the committee and subscribers. The University was 

 represented by Principal Marshall Lang and several 

 of the professors, while others interested in perpetuat- 

 ing the memory of Professor MacGillivray, including 

 a number of ladies, formed part of the company 

 present. 



A report of the proceedings from the Aberdeen 

 Free Press forms a subsequent part of this memorial 

 volume. Dr. White having been a distinguished 

 student of Professor MacGillivray, and having in his 

 Aberdeen University days been in intimate sympathetic 

 relations with him, there was no one better fitted to 

 discharge the duty which was put upon him, and none 

 could have done it better. His address is everything 

 that could have been desired for the occasion and is 

 well worthy of being preserved in a permanent form. 



As time goes on the real value of Professor 

 MacGillivray's work, and especially of his History 

 of British Birds, continues to grow in the estima- 

 tion of scientists ; while that delightful book has 

 never ceased to be attractive to the general reader 



