66 Obituary Notices. By James Hardy. 



third son of the sixth, and uncle of the late as well as the present 

 Marquis of Lothian. He became a member, July 30th, 1863. 

 Meetings of the Club near Melrose received the cordial welcome 

 of Lord Henry Kerr. 4. Mr John Forster Baird of Bowmont 

 Hill, Northumberland, Barrister, died at Hampstead, London, 

 March 15th, 1882, aged 59. He was the son of the late John 

 Forster Baird, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, He became a member, 

 Sept. 29th, 1875. 5. Mr James Aitchison, bailiff to his Grace 

 the Duke of Northumberland, died at Alnwick, May Gth, 1882, 

 aged 62 years. Mr Aitchison was long manager to the Bev. E. 

 W. Bosanquet of Eock Hall, in the breeding of Leicester sheep. 

 He was much respected by the tenantry on the Alnwick estate. 

 He became a member, Oct. 31st, 1877. 6. Colville Brown, 

 M.D., formerly of Berwick, died at Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

 Canada, 6th May, 1882, aged 43, He was gold medallist in 

 surgery in the University of Edinburgh. He had practised for 

 about 20 years very successfully in Berwick, when he left on 

 account of his health, for Winnipeg. As a keen sportsman and 

 naturalist he had many friends, and on one occassion had the 

 dignity of Sheriff of Berwick conferred on him. He was a fre- 

 quent and popular contributor to "The Lancet." His death 

 created deep sorrow throughout the Borders, his kindly genial 

 disposition and high abilities having greatly endeared him. He 

 became a member, May 25th, 1865. We have only one short 

 notice from his pen ; ** On the Change of Colour in the Feathers 

 of the head of the Black-headed Oull," in Proc. vol. viii. p. 531. 

 Dr. Paxton informs me that Dr. Brown was born at Yetholm, 

 and was taken to Gatherick, a farm on the Ford estate, when ten 

 months old, where he was brought up in the house of his grand- 

 father, Mr Lockie, the tenant, and there he resided, with inter- 

 vals in Edinburgh, until he settled in Tweedmouth as a medical 

 man. When Dr. Brown was a student, he frequently came over 

 to Norham, and saw a little practice with Dr. Paxton, and got a 

 little experience in making up medicines from his prescriptions. 

 After settling in Tweedmouth, Dr. Brown married the joungest 

 daughter of the late Mr Eobert Carr, farmer of Felkington, a 

 near neighbour, and then crossed the water to Berwick. The 

 family has now quitted Gatherick, his brother James having 

 entered to a lease of Spindleston. 7. Mr John Sadler, Curator 

 of the Boyal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, died 9th December, 

 1882, aged 46. Mr Sadler was an acute practical botanist, an 



