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his youth a thoughtful boy and diligent student. On com- 

 pleting his University course at Edinburgh, he entered on 

 the study of Law, and for some years practised successfully 

 in Edinburgh, holding for a time the honourable posl of 

 Advocate depute. After his marriage to Miss Home and the 

 death of his father, he retired from legal business and 

 devoted himself to country life, in which he bore himself 

 as the highest type of an educated Scottish country gentle- 

 man. 



Deeply religious and an elder of the Presbyterian church, 

 he took an active part in the stirring church movements of 

 his time, and in many other departments of Christian work, 

 as the Bible Society, the Sunday School Union, and the 

 Scottish Christian Knowledge Society. He was a zealous 

 educationist and agriculturist, and keenly alive to the im- 

 portance of science in agriculture, and was active in 

 count}- business. He was early attracted to the study of 

 geology, and made its pursuit the main recreation of his 

 life; devoting himself more particularly to the local geology 

 and archaeology of the South of Scotland, and to the ques- 

 tions relating to the boulder-clay and other glacial deposits. 

 He was the chairman and organiser of the Boulder ( 'om- 

 mittee of the Geological Society of Scotland, and his reports 

 on that subject are widely known and valued. As a student 

 of Pleistocene geology he was eminently rational and con- 

 servative, and advocated moderate views us to the Glacial 

 period in opposition to the extreme glacialists. 



At the time of his death he was the President of the 

 Edinburgh (leological Society, and Vice-presidenl of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was a chief promoter of 

 the Ben Nevis Meteorological Observatory, and of the 

 Marine Station at Granton, and was President of the Ber- 

 wickshire Field Club. The writer of this aotice had an 

 opportunity, by his invitation, to attend one of the exclu- 

 sions of this club, and at the same time to enjoy the hos- 

 pitality of the President and his family at his scat of Milne 

 (iraden in Berwickshire, and to visit with him some 

 interesting "Kaims" and other superficial deposits. The 



