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reviews and criticisms were often sharp, but always just, and 
never personal. The Academy of Geneva, where he was Profi 
of Anatomy, will find it difficult to fill the place of one who, in 
spite of his failing health, showed an enthusiasm for his science 
rarely equalled. . AG 
EXANDER Keir Jounsron, the geographer, died at Edin 
burgh, on the 11th of July, aged sixty-eight. 
VY. MisceLLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
straits, in humble homes; both of English lineage, of an ancestry 
and parentage yeomen on the soil on either continent, without 
dependence upon inherited means, or patronage, or even good for- 
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unselfish spirit, and both succeeded in doing what has been for 
the good of a common humanity, “without distinction of class, an 
without a view to any personal ends of thrift or glory. 
at that age are wont to trouble themselves with; this brief note 
dated “ Woburn, August, 1769,” will serve as an example:— 
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