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the misfortune to receive some years previously ; but, enfeebled as 
he was, he spent any intervals from suffering in preparing addi- 
tional notes to his work on St Kentigern (which had been very 
favourably noticed), in the event of an edition being published 
after his demise. [It is believed that this edition is nearly ready 
for publication.] 
Till within a few days of his death he was able to see his friends, 
and at last died peaceably on the 14th of June 1873, in the 68th 
year of his age. 
Dr Stevenson was twice married, and left issue by both mar- 
riages. 
6. Obituary Notice of Auguste De la Rive. By Professor 
George Forbes. 
Auguste De la Rive, one of our foreign Honorary Fellows, was 
born in the year 1801. He resided principally at Geneva, where 
for a long time he held a professorial chair. He made journeys in 
various European countries, and spent a considerable time in Eng- 
land and Scotland. After a long and active life, he was struck 
down by paralysis. A severe attack of gout added to his infirmity. 
The death of numbers of his friends and relatives deeply affected 
him. His state of health rendered it desirable that he should 
winter in the south of France in 1873. He died at Marseilles on 
the 27th November 1873, at the age of 72 years. His faculties 
were not impaired by infirmities, and up to the year of his 
death he continued to communicate memoirs to the Physical 
Society of Geneva. 
M. De la Rive was chiefly interested in the study of electricity. 
In the Royal Society catalogue we find 106 articles, chiefly on this 
serve as the living interpreters of libraries, and as links to maintain the 
hereditary succession of thought. Such a man as this is our friend Professor 
Stevenson, and such a character as his is the appropriate ornament of Univer- 
sities. He has ever manifested not only the learning, but also the urbanity, 
of the true scholar ; and in quitting the labours of the class-room and the 
Senate-hall to seek that repose which has now become necessary to him, he 
will not leave a single enemy behind. He will take with him into privacy 
the regrets of his colleagues, and their sincere wishes that he may yet enjoy 
many years of happiness and peace.” 
