Obituary. 



We regret to announce the death of a learned and highly 

 accomplished naturalist, William Macgillvray, Professor of 

 Civil and Natural History, Marischal College, Aberdeen. 

 Dr Macgillvray, originally, we believe, from the Island uf 

 Harris, was for many years assistant to Professor Jameson, 

 in the University of Edinburgh. He was afterwards ap- 

 pointed Conservator of the Anatomical and Surgical Museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. This office 

 he resigned on being appointed to the Chair of Civil History 

 and Natural History in Marischal College, Aberdeen. He 

 lectured for many years with great success to enthusiastic 

 classes of students, and increased the interest and utility of 

 his excellent academic prelections by field lectures and ex- 

 cursions. His extensive acquaintance with all the branches 

 of natural history, and his eminent talent as a writer, occa- 

 sioned great demands on his time ; and it is well known that 

 considerable and important works connected with natural 

 history owe their chief value and charm to his learning and 

 genius. 



Ornithology, botany, and geology, were with him favourite 

 pursuits. His great and beautiful work, entitled " A History 

 of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory," &c, in five 

 volumes octavo, with numerous characteristic engraved illus- 

 trations from his own beautiful drawings, is universally 

 known and esteemed. He translated several volumes on 

 Botany ; but published no original work in that department 

 of Natural History. In Geology, however, he contributed in- 

 teresting memoirs to scientific societies, and to scientific 

 journals of the day ; and published a manual of that popular 

 science, which, although incomplete, is on a better plan 

 than that adopted in some similar works of greater pre- 

 tensions. 







SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



METEOROLOGY. 

 1. Meteorological Society at the Mauritius. — It is pleasing to 

 learn that a Meteorological Society has been formed last summer at 



