458 Proceedings of the Royal Society 
Scottish History,” published in 1861, both of which are well known 
and are peculiar. Besides these, I may add in the words of Mr 
David Laing, which I am allowed to borrow, that “ his labours in 
editing numerous volumes of ancient chartularies for the Bannatyne, 
Maitland, and Spalding Clubs, more especially those of Melrose, 
Moray, Holyrood, Dunfermline, Glasgow, and Kelso, as well as works 
connected with the public records of Scotland, will always be grate- 
fully remembered.” One of the works undertaken by him was the 
“ Origines Parochiales of Scotland,” which, if it could have been 
finished as it was begun, would have been a great and valuable 
work ; but the difficulties in its execution proved to be far greater 
than had been calculated, and it remained at last in an unfinished 
state, which necessarily diminished its utility and importance. 
I have always understood that the manner in which Mr Innes 
prepared the official works which he was able personally to accom- 
plish, was much admired and approved of by the best judges both 
in this country and abroad, and in particular I have heard that M. 
Guizot, no mean critic, to whom he was personally known, always 
spoke highly of their merits. Partly on business exigencies, and 
partly as a form of relaxation, Mr Innes was latterly in the habit 
of visiting Paris in time of vacation, and greatly enjoyed the ad- 
vantages of good Parisian society, as well as the opportunity thus 
afforded him of access to the French archives and other objects con- 
nected with mediaeval history and antiquities. I may here observe 
that Mr Innes, among other accomplishments, had a very decided 
talent for letter writing, and that when he was abroad the accounts 
thus conveyed to confidential friends of what he had seen and felt 
on his travels, were a source of great interest and delight. 
In Mr Innes’s character — let me rather say within his bodily 
frame — two very different aspects of human power were to be seen. 
In the one we had a strong and athletic man, passionately fond of 
the country and country scenes, particularly those of this “ Land of 
the Mountain and the Flood,” the “ Land of our Sires,” excelling in 
all country sports, fishing, shooting, riding, coursing, and enjoying 
a pleasing though always a temperate repose from these exertions 
in some friendly or social meeting; while, in the other, we saw a 
man turned into a monk, busy among libraries and state records all 
day, and poring with double magnifiers and strong lamps till long 
