Obituary Notices. 
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Dr Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn. By Professor 
M‘Intosh, St Andrews. 
(Read 1, 1895.) 
Dr Cleghorn was descended from an old Fife family, his grand- 
father having been Professor of Civil and Natural History in the 
University of St Andrews, and was born in JN^adras on the 9th 
August 1820, his father being then Administrator-General in the 
Supreme Court. He was sent home in 182.4, and resided at the 
family estate of Stravithie, near St Andrews, till he was twelve 
years of age. As a boy he was trained to rural pursuits, and 
rendered familiar with agricultural routine. These early lessons 
amidst the fine woods of Stravithie, then haunted by the roe-deer 
and wild-duck, seemed to have laid the foundation for the love of 
flowers, shrubs, and trees that in after-life became so pronounced. 
He was sent to the High School of Edinburgh, which he attended 
for two years — having for school-fellows the brothers Philip and 
Robert Maclagan, William Nelson (afterwards the publisher), and 
the Rev. Prof. Milligan, late of Aberdeen. 
Leaving the High School, he entered the University of St 
Andrews, where, besides the ordinary classes, he had the privilege 
of attending a short course of lectures by Edward Forbes on star- 
fishes, before the publication of his classic work on that subject. 
After studying in the Arts classes for four years, he was apprenticed 
in 1837 as a pupil of the distinguished Edinburgh surgeon. 
Professor Syme, for five years, holding, however, during the fifth 
year, the office of House-Surgeon in the Edinburgh Infirmary. 
During his career in Edinburgh, botany, then under the charge of 
Prof. Graham, formed a favourite study, and laid a firm hold on 
the young surgeon — one of the numerous instances of the brother- 
hood that from earliest times has always subsisted between 
medicine and biology. 
Having graduated at the University of Edinburgh in 1841, and 
obtained an appointment in India in 1842, he proceeded, at the 
age of twenty- two, by a sailing-ship to Madras — the voyage then 
occupying three months. Landing in December, he was attached 
to the Madras General Hospital, to study Indian diseases, and 
