8o 



JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



The University of Edinburgh and the ex- 

 President of the Conchological Society.— Members of 

 the Society will be much interested in their late President, Rev. 

 R. Boog Watson, having received from his University the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. In presenting Mr. Watson to the 

 Vice-Chancellor of the University, on the 14th of April last, 

 Professor Dr. Kirkpatrick, Dean of the Faculty of Law, gave 

 the following account of Mr. Watson's scientific career : — 



Educated in Scotland, England, France, and at this Univer- 

 sity, Mr. AA'atson took his B.A. degree with honours in Mathe- 

 matics in 1846, and afterwards served as military chaplain 

 throughout the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. He 

 next spent nine years in Madeira, when he enjoyed valuable 

 opportunities of scientific study. For more than thirty years 

 past he has been a most devoted and distinguished student of 

 Natural Science, particularly of Geology and Conchology, in 

 which last he is one of the highest living authorities. Among 

 his many valuable contributions to science are the voluminous 

 and learned contents of vol. xv. of the 'Challenger' Reports, 

 extending to 756 pages, (Geological I'apers, published in the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the (leological 

 Society of London, and the Natural Science Society of Liincburg, 

 and conchological papers published by the Journal de Coiichx- 

 Uogie of Paris, the British Association, the Linnean Society, 

 and the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Not only has Mr. Watson been a leading member of these 

 various learned bodies for many years, but he has filled the high 

 post of President of the Conchological Society, of which he is 

 still Vice-President, and he has also been honoured with three 

 military medals in recognition of his important public services. 

 On these grounds the Rev. Robert Boog \Vatson, B.A., F.R.S.E., 

 F.G.S., etc., is conspicuously worthy of the highest honour which 

 his Alma Afafer has in her power to bestow. 



J.C, vii., July, 1S92. 



