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pore and subsequently to China towards the conclusion of the 

 War with that country. On returning to Madras he had for two 

 years the medical charge at the Neilgherry Hills, and then took 

 furlough to Europe, He was appointed to a Cavalry regiment 

 on his return to India, an appointment which he held until he 

 left the Service in 1858. By his brother officers Dr. Scott was 

 highly esteemed, and he was, from geniality of temper and dia- 

 position, a general favourite with all classes in the public service. 

 ' n the death of a maternal uncle, he inherited the estate of Ash- 

 trees in Boxburghshire and took the additional patronymic name 

 of Scott, He was Commissioner of Supply and Justice of Peace 

 for Boxburghshire, and being fond of Archaeological pursuits 

 was associated with Sir Walter Elliot, of Wolfelee, in the investi- 

 gation of old county records. Dr. Scott had from his youth an 

 ardent attachment to Natural History, especially to Ornithology 

 and Botany. In 1868 he became a member of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club, and to its Transactions he occasionally contri- 

 buted ; in 1873 he was appointed its President and delivered the 

 annual address at Kelso in 1 874. Dr. Scott was also an office- 

 bearer in the Scottish Meteorological Society, in which he took 

 great interest. He died after a very brief illness at his brother's 

 house, Newton near Jedburgh, on the 22nd September, 1883, and 

 was buried with his forefathers in the churchyard of Hownam. He 

 is survived by his widow, two married daughters, and one son, 

 an officer in the 3rd Hussars. F. Douglas. 



Mungo Park. By H. S. Anderson, M.D., Selkirk. 



As requested by the Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, I venture to give a sketch of the celebrated African 

 traveller, Mungo Park, who, by his explorations in the interior 

 of Africa, added much to our knowledge not only of the physical, 

 but also of the moral geography of that verj' interesting but 

 then almost unknown country. He was the discoverer of the 

 course of the Niger — in truth the pioneer of African travel. 



Park, as all know who have read his very interesting Journal, 

 had to encounter the greatest difficulties and dangers, and even 

 a long and cruel imprisonment ; but all these he overcame by a 

 rare combination of prudence, temper, and perseverance, and his 

 simple but beautiful narrative is almost like a romance. 



