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and at prices that brought these matchless productions within the 
reach of all classes of the community, attest the vigour and skill 
with which he carried on his enterprise as a publisher. To him also 
is due the honour of being the first to summon the learning of the 
churches to the preparation of a “ Cyclopaedia of Biblical Litera- 
ture,” such as should present in a condensed form the results of 
the most advanced investigation into the history, literature, and 
archaeology of the sacred writings. These are but a very few 
of the works he published, but they are the most important; of 
the rest it may be said generally, that they all possess some 
quality of excellence such as makes them valuable contributions to 
the literary or scientific products of the day. 
Mr Black died on the 24th of January 1874, having nearly com- 
pleted his 90th year. Not only for the services he rendered in 
various ways to the city, not only for his abilities and his success 
in business, not only for his enterprise and wisdom as a publisher, 
but still more for his moral qualities, his perfect integrity, his 
transparent honesty, his steadfast consistency, his unaffected 
piety, and his unswerving loyalty to truth and equity, will his 
name be handed down to posterity by the people of this city as 
that of one of the noblest and worthiest of her citizens. 
5. Biographical Notice of Sheriff Cleghorn. By 
David Maclagan, Esq., C.A. 
Thomas Cleghorn was born in Edinburgh 3d March 1818, and 
died there 13th June 1874. His father, Alexander Cleghorn, 
Collector of Customs, was an esteemed citizen of Edinburgh; his 
uncle, David Cleghorn, was long Crown Agent; and a second uncle, 
the Bev. Thomas Cleghorn, was parish minister of Smailholm, of 
which his great-grandfather, Dr Duncan, had also been pastor. 
Mr Cleghorn was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at 
the University, in both of which he was distinguished by earnest 
application and by high character. His favourite study was that 
of natural philosophy, and in the distinguished occupant of that 
chair, James David Forbes, he found a life-long friend and corre- 
spondent. Mr Cleghorn wrote a cordial and discriminating notice 
