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Insane. He was also visiting physician to the old Charity Work- 
house and City Bedlam in the Forrest Boad. Dr Smith was elected 
President of the .Royal College of Physicians in 1865. He died 
February 4, 1879. Dr Smith’s contributions to the literature of 
medicine were not numerous, but were marked by extreme con- 
scientiousness of observation. His most important papers are “An 
Account of Dysentery as it occurred in the Edinburgh Charity 
Workhouse during the years 1832 and 1833,” and “ Cases of Mental 
Derangement terminating fatally, with the Appearances disclosed by 
Inspection,” both published in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical 
Journal. Dr Smith was best known in his connection with the 
treatment of insanity, and he gained a considerable reputation in 
that special line of practice. It cannot be said that he displayed 
any great originality, his character being chiefly marked by accuracy, 
conscientiousness, and solidity, which qualities, however, added to 
great gentleness of disposition, procured him the respect and esteem 
of a large circle of friends, and the confidence of his professional 
brethren. 
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Sir Walter Calyerley Trevelyan, Bart. By Dr Benjamin 
Ward Bichardson, F.B.S. 
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., of Wallington in 
Northumberland, Nettlecombe in Somersetshire, Seaton in Devon- 
shire, and Trevelyan in Cornwall, is another of the Fellows whom 
the Boyal Society of Edinburgh has lost during the past year. The 
late Sir Walter was a scholar of the most refined taste and varied 
learning. His mind through all the stages of his long and active 
life was devoted to the acquirement and improvement of natural 
knowledge. He was born on the 31st of March 1797, his father 
being the fifth baronet of his line, and his mother a daughter of 
Sir Thomas Spencer Wilmot, Bart. Sir Walter commenced his 
university studies as an undergraduate at Oxford when he was about 
nineteen years of age, and in 1820 passed as Bachelor of Arts. Soon 
after this he visited the Faroe Islands, and wrote an account of 
them, including a record of their geology, vegetation, and climate. 
He also formed a collection of plants, making a fine herbarium, 
