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OBITUARY NOTICE. 
David Robertson, LL.D. 
SINCE our last meeting a notable figure has passed away 
Davip Robertson, the “grand old man” of Cumbrae is no 
more. Born in Glasgow in 1806, his boyhood and youth were 
a constant struggle against adverse circumstances. Whilst 
attending classes at the University, he was teaching his land- 
lady’s children and giving other lessons to pay his way. He 
and his young wife started in business with a capital of only 
47, but with a large stock of sterling honesty and determina- 
tion, and in the end success awaited their efforts. He studied 
with ardour several branches of natural history, especially the 
minute fossils of the glacial clays, and the marine fauna of the 
Firth of Clyde, filling note-book after note-book with the 
records of his observations, and contributing more sparingly 
to the proceedings of learned societies. Dr. Robertson’s contri- 
butions to malacological science included papers on Saxicava 
rugosa, Purpura lapillus, and Scaphander lignarius, as well as 
a series of careful and ingenious observations on the habits of 
the common Limpet. Even to the last he spent several hours 
daily at his favourite studies. Simple, kindly, and unosten- 
tatious, he made friends of all with whom he came in contact, 
whilst his merits as a man of science were cordially recognized 
by such men as Koelliker, Sars, and Dohrn, and eventually 
by his own University, which recently conferred upon him the 
degree of LL.D.—W.E.H. (Abstract of a communication made 
to the Society, Dec. oth, 1896). | laen fe \ 
