XX ii Proceedings of Boycd Society of Edinhurgh. 
lower the reputation of Scotland as a country, knowing the value 
of science and literature, such an example in the head of a profes- 
sion, sometimes tempted to sink its character as a learned Corpora- 
tion created for the administration of justice in that of an interesting 
and lucrative business, may perhaps be deemed an unwritten contri- 
bution to one of the objects for which the Koyal Society exists. 
