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younger geological school which has arisen since his day. But 

 as a most painstaking and accurate observer, Milne- Home stands 

 unrivalled. In the Memoir just mentioned, he furnishes a 

 minute account of the terraces, kaims, boulders, etc., on Tweed- 

 side, from Melrose to Berwick, and illustrates the course of the 

 river Tweed bj'^ means of woodcuts and maps. 



It was as a Boulder-hunter of the most indefatigable kind that 

 Milne-Home closed his busy scientific career. He had attacked 

 the tough subject of the "Boulder Clay of Europe " in 1869, in 

 the 25th volume of the Transactions R.S.E., but it was not till 

 1871 that he was vested by the Royal Society with full powers, as 

 Convener of a special committee, to report to it on the boulders, 

 kaims, etc., of Scotland. Ten reports (mainly written by 

 himself) were the result of this roving commission, and no 

 Convener ever worked with more willingness or zeal. 



Mr Milne-Home, who in 1870 received the degree of LL D. 

 from Edinburgh University, published in 1871 a book on the 

 "Estuary of the Forth," and in 1882 another on "Traces in 

 Scotland of ancient Water-lines, marine, lacustrine, and 

 fluviatile." He was a Vice-President of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He 

 was also President of the Edinburgh Geological Society, and 

 Chairman of the Meteorological Society of Scotland. Whatever 

 he did, he did it with all his strength : and when he died on 

 19th September 1890, Scotland lost a man who had worked hard 

 and well, during a long life, in the advancement of science, and 

 whose happiest moments were when busily engaged in the 

 interpretation of Nature. 



