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of Edinburgh, Session 1874-75. 
I shall add only a few more words as to his personal life. He 
was never married, but his younger brother Archibald, with his 
wife and family, were for many years domesticated with him, and 
when his brother died, the widow and surviving children remained 
with him as before, and ultimately shared in a large portion of his 
means. He was a most affectionate relative, and a very firm 
friend. He never forgot a kindness received, and had particular 
pleasure in repaying, when it came to be in his power, any proofs 
of friendship which he had received in the earlier period of his 
career, when encouragement and assistance were calculated to be of 
such value. He was a man of great goodness of temper, and of 
inflexible justice in all his dealings. His estate of Colonsay he 
had disposed of before his death to his brother Sir John M‘Neill, 
under a family arrangement. 
For a considerable part of his life Lord Colonsay laboured under 
some weakness in the chest and breathing tubes, and latterly a 
tendency to bronchitis was perceptible. We believe it was to 
this malady that he fell a victim. He was only ill for a short 
time, and at the age of eighty it was not wonderful that he was 
unable to resist the influence of a disease so dangerous in general 
to those advanced in life. 
2. Biographical Notice of Cosmo Innes. By the Hon. 
Lord Neaves. 
We have lost another eminent member of our Society in Mr 
Cosmo Innes, of whom I shall venture to give a short account. I 
do not think it necessary to make it long, and this for various 
reasons. Mr Innes’s labours were more nearly akin to the studies 
of another Society which meets under the same roof with ourselves, 
and within that body, I believe, tributes have been paid to his 
memory far more intelligent and more worthy of his reputation 
than any I could venture to offer. The general features of his 
career, also, are so well and widely known, and have been recalled to 
our recollection of late in such various ways, that any detailed narra- 
tive would be superfluous. My endeavour now, therefore, will mainly 
be not to pay homage to his antiquarian attainments, which are 
