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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
“ The Expiatory and Substitutionary Sacrifices of the Greeks.” He died 
on March 9, 1915. 
A. Campbell Fraser was born at the Manse of Ardchattan on Loch 
Etive on September 3, 1819. At the age of fourteen he entered Glasgow 
University, and after a single session there was transferred to Edinburgh. 
In 1838 he passed to the Divinity Hall, where his chief teachers were 
Chalmers and Welsh, whom he followed in 1843 at the time of the Dis- 
ruption, and was ordained in 1844 as junior minister of the Free Church 
at Cramond. In 1846 he was appointed to the Chair of Logic in the New 
College of the Free Church, and became known to wider circles as editor 
of the North British Review. In 1856 he became Professor of Philosophy 
in the University of Edinburgh in succession to Sir William Hamilton, 
and continued for thirty-five years to take a prominent part in the life of 
the University. After his retirement in 1891 he lived for the most part 
at Hawthornden, and died in Edinburgh on December 2, 1914, at the 
great age of 96. 
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Professor Fraser’s chief contributions to philosophical literature were his 
edition of Berkeley’s Works, an edition of Locke’s Essay, with prolegomena 
and notes, and his Gifford Lectures on the Philosophy of Theism. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal. Society of Edinburgh in 1858, 
served on the Council from 1879 to 1882, and was at the time of his death 
the senior Fellow of the Society. 
James Geikie, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., was a distinguished Professor of 
Geology in the University of Edinburgh, and President of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh. He died on March 1, 1915. See the Historical Sketch by 
Dr Horne, F.R.S., p. 18, above. 
D. T. G Wynne- Vaughan, F.L.S., was born at Llandovery in 1871, and 
educated at Monmouth School and at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He 
began his research work in the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Gardens, Kew, 
and in 1896 was appointed assistant in Botany in the University of 
Glasgow. Here he worked for about ten years, laying the foundation of 
his unrivalled knowledge of the anatomy of the Pteridophyta. In 1909 
he was appointed Professor of Botany in Belfast, and in 1914 took up 
similar duties at Reading. In addition to his own important series of 
papers, he co-operated with Dr Robert Kidston in a series of Memoirs 
on the fossil Osmundacese published in the Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh. These Memoirs have already taken a high place 
among botanical classics, and for his share of this work he was awarded 
