xlii Proceedings of Boyal Soeiety of Edinhurgh. 
the Manse, he was until the end loyal to the best traditions of such 
a home, and to the Church with which these abodes were connected. 
His father removed to Glasgow in 1836 ; and after attending 
Mr William Munsie’s well-known Academy in Nile Street, and 
being for some time at school in Arran, he joined the Junior Latin 
and Greek classes in the University at the beginning of the session 
1843-44; but beyond taking the University Prize Essay, and 
gaining high honours in Philosophy, he did not specially distin- 
guish himself in his Arts course, a circumstance which he chiefly 
attributed to the insufficient way he had been taught the rudi- 
ments of classics. The foundations of knowledge were never pro- 
perly laid, and all through his life he felt the neglect in this respect 
to which he had been subjected. It was the Logic Class which first 
awakened in him the love of knowledge for its own sake, and gave 
him the first real impetus. “This class,” he writes, “was the key 
to my brain, and emancipated me from what was to me the cramped 
and uninteresting field of classics, and set my feet on a firm and 
enduring rock. I owe everything to that class and its genial 
teacher ” (Professor Kobert Buchanan). 
In 1848 he entered the Medical classes. It had been arranged 
that he should study for the Church ; but Sir John Macleod of St 
Kilda, then a Director in the Old East India Company, having 
promised his father to nominate him to a medical post in that Com- 
pany, it was thought that such a chance should not be lost, so he 
took up a subject for which at the time he had no special predilec- 
tion, and of which he had no special knowledge. He, however, soon 
made his mark, taking a prize in Anatomy and Materia Medica, and 
a first in the Institutes of Medicine ; but the extra strain which this 
inflicted upon him, and the almost incessant work which it implied 
— for more than once he sat up all night, and almost always far on 
into the morning — told upon his health, which was then far from 
satisfactory, and brought on spitting of blood and other dangerous 
symptoms, which necessitated almost complete cessation from study. 
It was therefore thought best that he should go to the south of 
England in the spring of 1851 ; but though greatly benefited by 
this change, it was deemed somewhat risky for him to remain in 
Glasgow during the winter, so he was sent abroad. Gibraltar was 
the place selected, and never did he cease to entertain the pleasantest 
