496 Proceedings of the Royal Society 
is also bequeathed, with a few exceptions, to the University Library. 
This miscellaneous collection possesses many features of interest. 
It embraces about 150 volumes printed before a.d. 1500, special 
collections of works printed by the Aldine, Stephanie, and Elzevirian 
presses, of books printed at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, &c., in 
the 17th century, as well as of Baskerville, Barbou, Bodoni, Didot, 
Urie, and Foulis classics (those of the Bodoni and Foulis presses 
being especially numerous), the first and second folios of Shake- 
speare and many rare first editions of English classics; a large 
number of privately printed works (including a great many of the 
reprints issued in very limited number by his friend Mr Halliwell- 
Phillips) numerous books on bibliography, archaeology, and the 
fine arts, an extensive series of English minor poems, ballads, 
and songs; a very curious and unique collection of Broadsides, and 
a few MSS., including a Hebrew Boll of Genesis of great beauty. 
The books have been selected by Mr Euing with much care and 
judgment ; many of them are large paper copies, or present other 
specialities of bibliographic interest ; and most of them are taste- 
fully bound. The value of this gift to the University cannot 
be estimated at less than L.10,000. Mr Euing has judiciously 
empowered the Senate to sell duplicates to the extent of half his 
general collection ; and has directed the proceeds to be applied 
towards the maintenance and binding of the collection, or the 
purchase of other books to be added to it. 
Mr Euing died on the 16th May 1874, closing, in the words of 
a relative, “ gently and without suffering a long and useful life, 
and not leaving a single enemy.” He was a Glasgow merchant 
of the noblest type. Others may have equalled him in the shrewd- 
ness and worth, or in the generous heart and open hand, which 
happily are no uncommon characteristics of the order to which he 
belonged ; and some, of ampler resources, may even have surpassed 
him in the success with which they have made their wealth minister 
to the gratification of some particular taste ; but in the combination 
of the highest standing as a merchant with the zeal of a philan- 
thropist and the refinement of a connoisseur, in the many-sided 
excellencies of his character and the variety of his literary and 
artistic taste, and in the wise destination of his resources alike 
during life and at death, Mr Euing may well be regarded as unique. 
