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His practice was extensive, and it was chiefly as a recreation from 

 his severer duties that he pursued the study of Antiquities and 

 Natural History. He was a man of an active, investigating mind ; 

 he had before him a field hitherto altogether unexplored, and in 

 his profession, as well as in these pursuits, he rose to eminence. 

 In the latter part of his life he was knighted, and appointed Phy- 

 sician in Ordinary to King Charles 11. He died in 1712. His 

 writings are numerous, as appears by the following list of his 

 works : 



Disputatio Medica de variis Tabis speceibns, Lugduni Batavomm; 1661. 4to. 



Nuncius Scolo Britannus; Edin. 1683. Folio. 



An Account of the Scottish Atlas ; Edin. 1683. Folio. 



Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis, &c. Edin. 1684. Folio, 

 Again. 1696. Folio. 



Phalainologia Novaj &c. ; Edin. 1692. 4to. ; reprinted at the instigation of Pen- 

 nant in 1773. 



An Advertisement aneut the Xiphias, or Sword Fish, exposed at Edinburgh. 



An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients; Edinburgh, 1693. 12mo. 



Camden's Britannia, Additit)ns to edition of 1695. Folio. 



Introductio ad Historiam rerum a Romanis gestarum, &c. ; Edin. 1696. Folio. 



Auctarium Musaei Balfourani, e Museo Sibbaldiano, &c.; Edin. 1697. 8vo. 



Memoria Belfouriana, &c. Edin. 1699. Svo. 



Provision for ihe Poor in Time of Dearth, &c.; Edin. 1699. Svo. 



An Advertisement anent a rare sort of Whale come in near Cramond ; 1701. 



Coelii Sedulii Scoti poe-mata sacra ex MSS. &c. ; Edin. 1701. 8vo. 



Georgii Sibbaldi, Regulas bene et salubrita vivendi, &c. ; Edin. 1701. Svo. 



Commentarius in Vitam, G. Buchanan! ; Edin. 1702. Svo. 



The Liberty and Independence of the Kingdom and Church of Scotland Asser- 

 ted. Three Parts. Edin. 1703. 4to. 



An Answer to the Second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, &c. ; Edin. 

 1704, Svo. 



In Hippocratis legem et in ejus Epistolam ad Thessalum, &c. ; Edin. 1706. Svo. 



Historical Inquiries concerning the Roman Monuments, &c. in N, B. ; Edin. 

 1707. Folio. 



The Histories, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Linlithgow and 

 Stirling ; Edin. 1710. Folio. 



An Account of the Writers, &c. which treat of N. B. Two Parts. Edin. 1710. 

 Folio. 



Miscellanea quaedam eruditae Antiquitatis, &c. ; Edin. 1710. 



Vindiciee Prodromi Histories Naturalis Scotiae ; Edin. 1710. 



History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross; Edin. 

 1710. Folio. 



Reprinted, Cupar Fife; 1803. Svo. 



Commentarius in Julii Agricolae Expeditiones; Edin. 1711. Folio. 



Conjectures concerning the Roman Ports, &e. in the Friths of Forth and Tay; 

 Edin. 1711. 



Specimen Glosiarii de Populis etLocis N. B.; Edin. 1711. Folio. 



Series rerum a Romanis, post avocatum Agricolam, &c. ; Edin. 1711. Folio. 



Description of the Isles of Orkney an4 Zetland ; Edin. 1611. Folio. 



