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raent to Dr Chalmers, and this movement, I may add, proved so 
successful, that as the result of it, a colossal statue of that eminent 
man is now being executed, and will soon, I hope, adorn one of the 
principal streets of our city. This is neither the occasion nor the 
place for referring to Dean Bamsay’s usefulness and reputation as 
a divine, or as a pastor of a large and attached congregation. 
Neither can I do more here than allude to the many excellent dis- 
courses and treatises on religious subjects, of which he was the 
author. But I cannot forbear mentioning, and with special emphasis, 
the Dean’s geniality of disposition, his large-heartedness, and his 
entire freedom from sectarian jealousy, which enabled and disposed 
him to acccept, and even to seek, the society and friendship of any 
person of worth, though not belonging to his own branch of the 
Christian Church. May I be permitted to express a wish and enter- 
tain a hope that the example he set, approved of as it is by, I believe, 
all classes of this community, may not be without good effect. 
Dean Bamsay, though faithful and assiduous in the performance of 
his professional duties, found time for acquiring information and 
pursuing studies in other fields. He was extremely fond of music, 
and his knowledge of it, even in its scientific aspects, was well shown 
in two lectures which he delivered before the Philosophical Institu- 
tion of the city “ On the Gfenius and Works of Handel.” His 
knowledge of botany was shown in a memoir which he published of 
the discoveries and works of his friend Sir J. E. Smith. But the 
literary work which carried his name farthest, and will preserve it 
longest, at least among his countrymen, was his “ Beminiscences 
of Scottish Life and Character.” It is a striking proof of the 
general appreciation of this book, that it went through twenty 
editions, and that only a fortnight before his death, the venerable 
Dean was revising the proof sheets of a twenty-first edition. Dean 
Edward Bamsay was a Scotchman of whom his country has reason 
to be proud, and who will live in the hearts of all who had the 
happiness to possess his personal acquaintance. Archibald Smith, 
of Jordanhill, was an LL.D. and F.B.S. of London and Edinburgh. 
He first distinguished himself as a student of Glasgow University, 
and afterwards in Cambridge, having, at Trinity College there, 
acquired the high position of Senior Wrangler and first Smith’s 
prizeman. Though he became by profession an English barrister, 
