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exception of tlie time spent at Constantinople he resided in Edin- 
burgh, and was engaged in scientific work and in teaching 
mathematics. The great work of his life was the preparation of a 
series of exhaustive tables of logarithms. He was Secretary for 
many years to the Eoyal Scottish Society of Arts. He received the 
degree of LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh, was admitted 
to this Society in 1849, and was adjudged the Makdougall-Brisbane 
prize in June 1886. He died at the age of 86, and will be remem- 
bered with affection and respect by a large number of the Eellows of 
this Society, and by more than one generation of students to whom 
he taught mathematics. 
Adolf Paul Schultze was born on 8th October 1840 at Crimmits- 
chau, in Saxony, studied engineering in the Polytechnic at Chemnitz, 
and came to England in 1864. His special study was the micro- 
scope considered as an optical instrument, and he made substantial 
contributions to optical science. He died on 3rd January 1891. 
Egbert William Mylne was descended from a family that for 
several generations acted as the King’s master-masons for Scotland. 
An ancestor of his was the architect for the North Bridge of Edin- 
burgh. The deceased was engineer to the Limerick Water 
Company, and the New London Water Company. He was 
frequently called on to give evidence before the Committees of the 
House of Commons on questions relating to the water supply of 
towns. He was also an eminent geologist, and his geological map 
of London was long a standard authority. He died in July 1890, 
at the age of 74. 
Dr Patrick James Stirling was born in Dunblane in 1809. 
He studied at St Andrews University, and was a favourite pupil of 
Dr Chalmers, then Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political 
Economy, in whose class he carried off all the highest distinctions. 
He afterwards attended the Law Classes in the University of Edin- 
burgh ; and he managed in a class in which Lord Mure, Lord 
Jervis woode, and Principal James David Forbes were his fellow- 
students, to gain the very high distinction of the Gold Medal in 
the class of Civil Law. Notwithstanding his being for many years 
the leading Solicitor in Western Perthshire, he found time to publish 
a work on “ The Philosophy of Trade,” and another on “ The Gold 
Discoveries.” He translated Frederick Bastiat’s works entitled 
