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parents whom he loved, honoured and revered ; with the delightful 

 consciousness of being a dutiful son, and being cherished as such ; 

 one of a family remarkable for sweetness of disposition and 

 manners, he had lived with his broth ei's and sisters in terms 

 of mutual love and attachment. He had never lost a friend but 

 by the stroke of mortality." 



May we all receive such an epitaph from our friends, and 

 may we all deserve it as well as did Dr. Joseph Black. 



NOTES UPON SOME OF BLACK'S FAMOUS GLASGOW 

 AND EDINBURGH FRIENDS. 



John Robison, Editor of Black's lectures, born 1739, 

 studied at Glasgow, accompanied Wolfe on the expedition to 

 Quebec, was rated as midshipman, and employed in surveying the 

 St. Lawrence He went to Jamaica in charge of the chronometer 

 invented by Harrison, on the voyage to test this instrument. He 

 became lecturer in Chemistry in Glasgow on Black's removal to 

 Edinburgh, but went to Russia four years later, and was 

 appointed Inspector of the Marine Cadet Corps at Cronstadt, 

 leaving this employment to become Professor of Natural History 

 in Edinburgh in 1773. He wrote many valuable papers for the 

 scientific journals, but his most interesting work Avas a pamphlet 

 blaming the Freemasons for all the unrest following the French 

 Revolution. 



Adam Ferguson, fi'om 1724, studied at St. Andrews, after- 

 wards going to Edinburgh to study Divinity. In 1759 he became 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy, but later changed to the chair 

 of Moral Philosophy. His chief works were the "Essay on Civil 

 Society" (1769), and his "History of the Progress and Ter- 

 mination of the Roman Republic " (1783). He died in 1816, 

 aged ninety -three. 



Adam Smith, author of the " Enquiry into the Nature and 



