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was withal tender of heart, deeply sympathetic to all in 

 distress, and the most helpful of friends. He was universally 

 esteemed as an upright, honourable, conscientious man, 

 whose aim it was to benefit his fellows, and soften, as far 

 as in him lay, the hard conditions under which so many 

 have to wage the battle of life. 



Mr Wood mai-ried, in 1859, Miss Walker, daughter of Mr 

 Walker, for many years the esteemed parochial schoolmaster 

 of Earlston, and she with a son, Dr David J. Wood, a 

 successful ophthalmic surgeon in Cape Town, and a daughter, 

 survives to mourn his lo.ss. Mrs Wood is an Honorary 

 Member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and has 

 contributed several racy and well written papers to its Pro- 

 ceedings. Both she and her husband enjoyed for many 

 years the close friendship of our late Secretary, Dr Hardy, 

 who was accustomed to recall, with keen appreciation, the 

 happy days he had spent beneath their hospitable roof. 



Rev. George Wilson. By J. Ferguson, 

 F.S.A. (Scot.), Duns. 



With deep regret we heard of the death of the Rev. 

 George Wilson, senior minister of the Free Church, Grienluce, 

 which occurred suddenly at his residence, Laret Burn, St. 

 Boswells, on February 18th 1899. 



The deceased was the youngest son of the late Mr 

 Abraham Wilson, Edington Mains, and brother of the late 

 Mr John Wilson (latterly of Wellnage, Duns) whose name 

 was so long associated with that farm, and who was one 

 of the best known agriculturists of his day. The family 

 espoused very warmly the cause of the Free Church at the 

 time of the Disruption, and the subject of our brief notice 

 was a Disruption probationer. He was settled at Glenluce, 

 Wigtownshire, in 1848, and laboured there with great 

 acceptance and success for the greater part of half-a-century, 



