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of Edinburgh, Session 1872-73. 
founding with it the “ Clifton Union,” a term including a far 
more extensive and populous district, from which the watering- 
place is sharply defined by site as well as by structure, and which 
adds to the count a great mass of the most needy population of 
the Bristol suburbs. Thus, raking away the rubbishy statistics 
of the newsmonger, he proves by irrefragable facts, on a scale of 
several annual returns, that the yearly mortality of the justly 
famous watering-place is no more than 17 in 1000. 
Dr Symonds published, in the professional periodicals chiefly, 
various valuable papers on various strictly practical subjects, 
which it would be out of place for me even to enumerate here, 
and much more so to discuss. They were received as they 
successively appeared with approbation by his professional brethren, 
and may be perused now with profit by every professional student. 
In 1854 Dr Symonds became a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, led to us partly by his early connection with the 
University, and partly by the close ties of friendship contracted 
with many Scotsmen, of whom, or of whose relatives, he had been 
at Clifton the skilful and sympathising physician. 
In the autumn of 1868 his health for the first time began to 
fail, and, though he took early warning and contracted greatly the 
field of his labours, his ailments grew upon him, and proved fatal 
on the 25th February 1871. 
Dr Patrick Miller, another eminent physician who practised 
during a long life at Exeter, died there in December 1871, in his 
90th year, Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 
also, I apprehend. Senior Gfraduate of the University of Edin- 
burgh, where he took his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1804. 
I cannot find satisfactory evidence that any graduate of that year, 
or of those immediately preceding it, has survived him. In our 
own list there still stands one name for the year 1818, in which 
Dr Miller was elected a Fellow; but for some time past, on 
careful inquiry, no trace can be discovered for identifying this 
his contemporary. 
Dr Miller was connected with us by ties dear to every member 
of our Society. He was grandson of the celebrated Professor of 
Mathematics in the University, Dr Matthew Stewart, and nephew 
