III. A Biographical Account of Mr William Hamilton, 

 late Profejfor of Anatomy and Botany in the Univerjity of 

 Glafgow, By Robert Cleghorn, M. D. F. R. S. Edin. 

 Lecturer in Chemijlry in the Univerfity of Glafgow. 



\_Read 6th Nov. 1792.] 



IN writing the life of a perfon who himfelf publifhed nothing, 

 it is extremely difficult to fatisfy the expecflation of his par- 

 ticular friends, without incurring the charge of adulation from 

 the reft of the public. How far I have fucceeded in doing ju- 

 ftice to Mr Hamilton's merit, without infenfibility or exagge- 

 ration, muft be determined by thofe who knew him, and by 

 ihofe who can appreciate the worth of fuch profeffional remarks 

 as I Ihall lay before them in the fequel. Mr William Ha- 

 milton was born in Glafgow July 31. 1758*. Having fi- 

 nifhed the ufual courfe at the Gramrhar School, he went to 

 Glafgow College in 1770, and continued there ftudying with 

 great diligence till 1775, when he became Mafter of Arts at the 

 age of feventeen. 



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* His father was Mr Thomas Hamilton, an eminent furgeon, and profeflbr of 

 anatomy and botany in Glafgow ; his mother Mrs Isabel Anderson, daughter of 

 Mr Akderson, formerly profeffor of church-hiltory in the Univerfity of GJafgow. 



