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holding that not only would it prove useful for ships at sea, but that 
“ by exercising a whole class together the children develop that sense 
of time and rhythm which is essential to all proper co-operation in 
combined movements, from the pulling of a rope to the marching of 
a regiment.” 
As a Volunteer he was a member of No. 4 Company, Q.E.R.V.B., from 
1870 to 1877. He became H.M. Inspector of Anatomy in 1881, and in 
1890 Assistant Inspector under the Cruelty to Animals Act for Scotland 
and the North of England, the latter appointment affording full scope for 
his qualities of tact, patience, and knowledge, and compelling him to the 
last to keep himself abreast of the developments of Physiology and 
Pathology. 
He was a member of Edinburgh School Board, 1885-1888 ; Chairman 
of the Burgh Committee on Secondary Education, 1893-1902 ; Governor 
George Heriot’s Trust, 1880-1903 ; ex-officio Chairman of the Board of 
Management Royal Infirmary during his Lord Provostship ; a member of 
the Board of Management of the Royal Edinburgh Mental Hospital, 1907- 
1914. He was elected a Fellow and an Examiner of the Royal College of 
Physicians, Edinburgh. 
In 1880 Sir James Russell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh, whose meetings he attended with great interest and enjoy- 
ment. Although he never contributed a paper to the Proceedings or 
Transactions , he often took part in discussions of papers on subjects 
with which he was acquainted. His mental qualities were strong, not so 
much in the direction of original investigation and research, as in a 
marked capacity for understanding and expounding the results of research, 
and applying them to the good of the community. He contributed a 
valuable memoir of the late Sir William Turner, which is published in 
Vol. XXXVI of the Proceedings, and which is full of interesting remini- 
scences of University life. He was also a regular attendant at the 
meetings of the Royal Society Club, where he delighted his friends with 
many curious stories of the days when Professor Syme and Sir James 
Young Simpson added lustre to the medical faculty. 
A man of affairs, he was director and chairman of various companies. 
As an elder of the Barclay U.F. congregation, he was held in great 
esteem for faithful and detailed duty to his Church. In that office, 
as a director of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, and as a 
member of committee of the French Protestant Church of Edinburgh, 
he found more outward expression for his simple but deeply religious 
nature. 
