384 OBITUARY NOTICE.— REV, GEORGE WILSON 



until compelled by failing health, a few years ago, to retire 

 from the active duties of the pastorate, but still retaining 

 his connection with the congregation. Only a few months 

 ago, the ministerial jubilee of Mr Wilson was celebrated, 

 and on that occasion he was presented with an illuminated 

 address by the Presbytery of Stranraer, and with other 

 tokens from his congregation and friends of the high regard 

 entertained for him as a minister and Christian gentleman. 



Mr Wilson was a man of high culture and wide inform- 

 ation, and his knowledge of the antiquities of the district 

 in which he so long ministered was probably unsurpassed 

 by that of any other labourer in the same field. He 

 enriched the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland with an extensive collection of flint weapons and 

 instruments collected by himself in the Qlenluce neighbour- 

 hood, and the published Proceedings of the Society by 

 many valuable communications bearing upon archaeological 

 subjects. An important communication from his pen, on 

 the antiquities of Wigtownshire, was read at a meeting of 

 the Society, in Edinburgh, only a few days before his 

 death. 



Although interested by taste and family connection in the 

 pursuits of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, it was only 

 recently that he was elected one of our members. 



Mr Wilson was one of the most genial and sociable of 

 men, an excellent " raconteur," and a charming companion, 

 and will be very much missed by a wide circle of corres- 

 pondents and attached friends. He was predeceased by his 

 wife, a sister of the Eev. Professor Marcus Dods of the 

 New College, Edinburgh. On retiring from pastoral work at 

 Grlenluce, Mr Wilson settled in Edinburgh ; but preferring 

 country life, he afterwards took up his residence at Laret 

 Burn, with a niece, who had been his devoted companion 

 and ministrant for many years. He was 75 years of age, 

 and was interred in the family burying-ground in Foulden 

 churchyard. 



