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are by no means confined to purely professional matters, his warm 
interest and zeal in social and religious questions leading him to 
spend much time in giving his support to whatever views his con- 
victions espoused. The same conscientious love for the success of 
truth stole away many an hour from the but limited leisure which 
his professional avocations afforded him, and induced him to ap- 
pear in public and advocate from the platform, to eagerly attentive 
audiences, the same views to which his pen lent so ready and 
powerful a support. 
On the 17th of June, after an illness of only three weeks’ duration, 
which at first created no serious anxiety in the minds of his medical 
attendants, James Miller passed away from amongst us, in the fifty- 
second year of his age, and the twenty-second of his Professorship. 
Eobert Morrieson was born in Edinburgh on tlie 18th January 
1787, and was educated at the High School and University there. 
He studied medicine, and obtained a surgeon’s diploma at the early 
age of nineteen. His intentions were to proceed to India at once 
in a medical capacity, but he was prevented from doing so by a 
regulation of the Court of Directors requiring medical officers to be 
of the age of twenty- two. Mr Morrieson, however, received from 
his uncle. Sir Hugh Inglis, a direct civil appointment, and he pro- 
ceeded to India in 1806 as a civil servant, although very reluctant 
to give up the profession he had early chosen, with the benevolent 
purpose of doing good to his fellow-creatures. He found, however, 
afterwards many opportunities of gratifying this desire, and em- 
ployed his medical skill among the poor natives of India. He 
remained a considerable time at Beerbhoom under his own brother, 
and rose to be Judge and Magistrate there. Afterwards he became 
one of the Judges of the Circuit Court at Moorshedabad, in which 
office he continued till, owing to the state of his health, he re- 
turned to Scotland in 1829 ; and till his death on the 10th Novem- 
ber 1864, he has chiefly resided at his house No. 6 Heriot Eow, 
Edinburgh, and at Harvieston in Mid-Lothian. He became a 
Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1822. 
Mr Morrieson was certainly one of those who, while they exercise 
no small influence among the men and movements of their day, 
are, by reason of their retiring modesty, comparatively unknown 
