of Edinburgh, Session 1874-75. 
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Glasgow. He has now bequeathed to them the remainder, giving 
powers of sale or exchange, but directing the retention of at least 
fifty of his pictures in their gallery. His refined taste was visible 
also in a collection of old silver plate and china. Mr Euing was 
a Fellow of the Scotch Antiquarian Society, and President of the 
Glasgow Archaeological Society. He was long an active member, 
and one of the last surviving councillors, of the Maitland Club, 
to which he presented a volume prepared by the Rev. Mr Muir of 
Dysart, containing extracts from the records of that burgh. He 
was ever ready to countenance and encourage any apparently 
meritorious enterprise of antiquarian authorship. He had formed 
a very remarkable and highly interesting collection of autographs, 
which, as his will does not indicate any special destination for it, 
will probably fall to be dispersed. 
But, of all the noble forms which the gratification of his personal 
tastes assumed, that on which he bestowed most attention, and 
which he valued most — cherishing in it a peculiar modest pride — 
was his library. It consisted of three distinct divisions. The 
first contained a very large and — so far as Scotland at least is 
concerned — unrivalled collection of music and of works on music, 
amounting to several thousand volumes. Mr Euing was an 
enthusiast in music, and was conversant alike with its theory and 
practice ; indeed his love for it was so intense, that in early life 
he was in the habit of meeting with some friends of similar tastes 
as a Saint Cecilia Society at, I think, five o’clock in the morning. 
This musical library is bequeathed to Anderson’s University in con- 
nection with the Euing Lectureship in Music, along with L.1000 
towards providing a fireproof apartment for its reception, and L.200 
for the compiling and printing of a catalogue. The second division 
consisted of a still larger and invaluable collection of editions of 
the Bible and its parts, chiefly of the various English versions 
(which are very largely represented), but including also a very 
considerable number of Polyglott, Greek, Latin, French, German, 
and Dutch Bibles, and not a few in other languages, along with 
numerous Psalters, and Books of Prayers and Hymns, amounting 
to nearly 3000 volumes. This has been left to the University 
Library, to be retained as a special collection. The third division 
was his general library, amounting to nearly 20,000 volumes, which 
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