INDEX. 



535 



101 ; his qualifications as a physician, 

 145 ; invites Dr. Wilson to Penicuik, 

 219; name mentioned, 155, 201,209, 

 238, 247, 250, 441, 480. 

 Numbers, inaptness for, 92. 



OPHTHALMALOQICAL Congress at Brussels, 



333. 

 Ornamental Art, lecture on relation of 



Industrial Art to, 442. 

 Otte, Miss, 448. 



' PAPER, Pen, and Ink,' lecture on, 450. 



Paracelsus and his pupils, 193. 



Paris, Scotchmen in, 117. 



Patients, kindness to, 37. 



Patriots, what makes, 375. 



Pedestrian Excursions, 95, 247, 251. 



Percy, Dr., 255. 



Pharmacy as a branch of Technology, 

 425. 



Pharmaceutical Society, 425. 



Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, 

 324, 325, 425, 435, 444, 450. 



Physical Society, papers read at, 221, 

 232 ; Dr. Wilson becomes third Presi- 

 dent of, 231. 



Playfair, Dr. Lyon, 164, 171, 215. 



Poems. See Verses. 



4 Pompeii, The Last Days of,' 59, 61. 



Popular Lectures, 324. 



Priestley, Dr., 345. 



Pupils, attachment of, to Dr. Wilson, 

 350-352. 



RAGGED School, lecture to, 329. 



Red Ribbon, becomes a, 223. 



Reid, Dr. D. B., 232. 



Reid, Dr. John, 'Life' of, 342, 415; 



verses on, 342. 

 Resurrection, thoughts on the, 63, 64, 65, 



note, 475. 



Retrospect of life, 389. 

 Review, British Quarterly, contributions 



to, 338. 



Richmond Court, laboratory in, 149. 

 Rodgers, Mr., calotypist, 457. 

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, papers read to, 



314, 337. 

 Ruskin, 325. 



Russell, Rev. John, of Muthil, 13. 

 Russell, John, Catharine, James, and 



Alexander, join the family circle, 13; 



illness and death of Catharine, 187, 



189 ; letter from James, 203 ; letters 



to, chap. vi. passim; 300-305 : illness, 

 last days, and death of James, 315-319 ; 

 death of John, 377 ; removal of Alex- 

 ander to Australia, 398 ; letters to, 

 401, 474. 



Russell, Mr. J. S., lecturer on Natural 

 Philosophy, 38. 



SACREDNESS of the Medical Profession, 



366, 367. 

 School of Arts, Edinburgh, attends Che- 



mistry Class, 40 ; Dr. Wilson becomes 



lecturer, 307 ; a favourite class, 308. 

 School companions, recollections by, 16, 



17. 



Scientific Papers, 232. See APPENDIX A. 

 Scotch, advantage of being able to speak, 



117. 



Scott, David, his 'Alchemist,' 192. 

 Sea Animals, phosphorescence of, inquiry 



regarding, 245. 

 Seller, Dr., 350. 

 Shakspere, originality of, 175. 

 Signals, Railway and Ship, 334, 414. 

 Simpson, Dr. J. Y., letter to, on Anaes- 

 thetics in Surgery, 293, 297. 

 Sickness, Thoughts in, 387. 

 Skae, Dr. David, of Morningside, 231, 



252. 



Slave-labour, practical protest against, 14. 

 ' Sleepy Hollow,' Morningside, described, 



321, 339. 



Smith, Dr. J. A., 15,16. 

 Smith, Mr. R. M., 493. 

 Snow-ball riot at College, 119-123, 130. 

 Snowdrop, verses on, 181. 

 Soap-bubble, lines to a, 143. 

 Society of Arts, Royal Scottish, award to 



Dr. Wilson, 331 ; papers read before, 



331 ; APP. C. 

 Society, Juvenile, for the Advancement 



of Knowledge, 15, 16; gives place to 



Zetalethic Society, 38. 

 Somerville, Mrs., 99. 

 Souls, transmigration of, 257. 

 Sound, use of Electro-magnetic Bell in 



conducting, 331. 

 Sprunt, Mr. Alex., 15, 17. 

 Sprunt, Mr. James, 15. 

 Stevenson, Mr. Alan, 376. 

 ' Stars, Chemistry of the,' paper on, 347. 

 Star-fish, Edward Forbes's book on, 240, 



246. 



Stirling, visit to, 249. 

 Stethoscope, poem addressed to the. 352, 



353. 

 Studio described, 105. 



