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graduated with honours M.B. and C.M., and presently repaired 
to Larbert, where he became assistant physician to the county 
lunatic asylum there. After remaining two years in this 
institution, an opportunity for establishing himself in the 
neighbouring town of Falkirk occurred through the death of 
the late Dr Hamilton, whose -practice he acquired. From 
now onwards began his laborious and successful career as a 
general practitioner, during which he found time to write 
several interesting papers on medical subjects, which he pub- 
lished in the Ldinburgh Medical Journal. In August 1892 
he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine, receiving com- 
mendation for his thesis “On the Physical Relations of 
Idiocy and Imbecility.” Though he had abandoned zoology 
as his business in life, he did not cease during these busy 
years to take the deepest interest in the subject, and remained 
a sympathetic member of the Royal Physical Society to the 
last. More especially was he interested in the ornithology 
of the district in which he practised, and in fact had in view 
the preparation of a paper on the birds of the upper part of 
the Forth area, had he lived to carry it out. 
In March 1893 he had the sad misfortune to lose by death 
his devoted wife, daughter of his predecessor, Dr Hamilton, 
and sister of the present eminent Professor of Pathology in 
the University of Aberdeen. He was not long in following 
her, for in the beginning of January of the present year (1894) 
he died, at the early age of forty-three. 
Personally Dr Leslie was endowed with a full measure of 
that integrity and faithfulness of character which is so 
eminently characteristic of the Lowland Scottish nature, but 
he was also possessed of a peculiar charm of manner not quite 
so common among our countrymen, which gained for him 
speedy popularity among all with whom he came in contact. 
Herein he was also aided by the great breadth of his 
sympathies, for he was not only a man of scientific bent and 
abilities, but displayed and cultivated a strong taste for the 
somewhat different field of poetry and literature. Some 
people may think those two channels of human thought 
incompatible—George Leslie, whose loss the Royal Physical 
Society deplores, was an example to the contrary. 
