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feel an interest in the subject. An enumeration of them is given 
in Pettigrew's “ Medical Portrait Gallery,” where also the inci- 
dents of his life are fully narrated. I believe that he enjoyed a 
peaceful and cheerful old age, and attained his eighty-seventh year, 
without much suffering. I have heard that he latterly discontinued 
the use of wine, and attributed to that circumstance mainly his 
continued enjoyment of health. He had always been a temperate 
man, his favourite beverage being tea. Not very long before his 
death he had the misfortune to lose his wife, who also attained a 
great age, and latterly his eyesight failed him completely. This 
he felt as a great privation, but he bore it with patience, and 
never murmured. He sank into a state of great weakness, which 
gradually led to his death without any struggle. He was much 
loved and respected by all who knew him, and his reputation as 
a good man and as an excellent surgeon, and especially as a dis- 
tinguished and scientific oculist, ought not soon to be forgotten in 
his profession. 
It is said that he has left behind him a manuscript record of his 
recollections, which, if published, would in all probability, coming 
from a man of his ability, observation, humour, and experience, be 
highly interesting, not only to the profession, hut to the public. 
The following statement respecting the Members of the Society 
was read by the Chairman : — 
I. Honorary Fellows — 
Royal Personage, ....... 1 
British subjects, 19 
Foreign „ 33 
Total Honorary Fellows, 53 
II. Non-Resident Member under the Old Laws, . . 1 
III. Ordinary Fellows : — 
Ordinary Fellows at November 1868, . . . 289 
New Fellows, 1868-69. — Robert Henry Bow, Alexander 
Buchan, Rev. H. Calderwood, James Dewar, Professor A. 
Dickson, William Dickson, George Elder, Principal Sir 
Alexander Grant, Bart., Sir Charles Hartley, Isaac Ander- 
son-Henry, Alexander Howe, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, 
Carry forward, 
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