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III. Obituary Notice of the late George Leslie, MD., FRSA. 
By R. H. Traquarr, M.D., LL.D., FBS. 
(Read 19th December 1894.) 
George Leslie was born at Turriff, Aberdeenshire, in the 
year 1850. Having spent some time as assistant toa chemist 
and druggist in Dundee, he repaired to Edinburgh about the 
year 1876, and commenced the study of medicine at the 
University. 
Having a decided inclination towards the subject of natural 
history, he became assistant to the late Professor Sir Wyville 
Thomson shortly after his return from the “ Challenger” 
Expedition, and for some time he also worked in the 
Challenger Commission Office as secretary to Sir Wyville. 
In 1879 he joined the Royal Physical Society, contributing 
in the same year a paper “On an Abnormal Specimen of 
Huplectella aspergillum” to its Proceedings. This was 
followed in 1881 by the well-known “Catalogue of the 
Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth,” which he prepared 
in conjunction with his college friend, Mr W. A. Herdman, 
now Professor of Biology in the University College, Liverpool. 
At that time it seemed uncertain as to whether Mr Leslie 
would ultimately devote himself to practical medicine as his 
profession, or allow himself to be tempted to turn aside into 
that most uncertain path to eminence or even bare livelihood 
which is trodden by those who, unsupported by private fortune, 
choose to devote themselves to pure science. Certainly he 
was not wanting either in ability, or in the bent of mind, 
necessary for the development of a thorough good zoologist. 
But prudential considerations prevailed,and in August 1881 he 
