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28. George Brisbane Douglas, Springwood Park, Kelso. 



29. Rev. John B. Fletcher, Dunse. 



30. Thomson Jeffrey, 36, George Square, Edinburgh. 



31. Rev. G. H. Ainger, D.D., Whitton Tower, Rothbury, 



Morpeth. 



32. J. Bailey Langhorne, Oakwood Hall, Wakefield. 



33. Sir Molineux Nepean, Bart., Loder's Court, Bridport. 



34. Wm. Brook Mortimer, Jesmond Dean, Newcastle. 



35. James Robertson, Rock Moor House, Alnwick. 



36. Alexander Scott, Hopetoun House, Queen's Ferry. 



37. Robert Richardson Dees, Newcastle. 



38. John Fergusen, Dunse. 



39. Archibald Buchan Hepburn, Smeaton Hepburn, Preston- 



kirk. 



CORRESPONDING. 

 Robert Renton, Threeburn ford, Lauder. 



Memoir of Sir Andrew Smith, M.D., K.C.B., F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 &c, Director Generatofthe Medical Department of the 

 British Army. By Alexander Michie , Vice-President 

 of the Hawick Archaeological Society. 



Sir Andrew Smith, K.C.B., formerly Director General of the 

 Medical Department of the Army, was horn on the 3rd Decem- 

 ber, 1797, at Heronhall, in the parish of Kirkton, Roxburghshire. 

 He was the son of Thomas Smith, a man, active and faithful in 

 the discharge of all the duties of life. His mother was a woman 

 of great mental power and Christian worth, and the family con- 

 sisted of two sons and three daughters, of whom Andrew was the 

 first born. 



At an early age, he was sent to a school at Stobs, but made 

 little progress, the teacher, being of a harsh disposition, fre- 

 quently subjecting him to unmerciful flogging, which produced in 

 his mind an aversion to study. Too frequently he was found 

 playing the part of the truant, spending his time in gathering 

 wild flowers, hunting butterflies, or searching for bird nests. 



In 1809, the family having removed to Hassendean, he at- 

 tended the parish school of Minto, and afterwards that of 



