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induced, shortly after coming to Edinburgh, to become a visitor of 
the Society for Belief of the Destitute Sick. He was appointed 
its treasurer, an office he filled for nearly forty years, ever seeking 
to promote the usefulness of that institution in his own way, and 
to increase its funds. He also latterly took an active part in the 
management of St. Cuthbert’s Parochial Board, being the more 
interested in this from his connection with the West Kirk session, 
of which he was an elder for no less than fifty-five years. 
Mr. M‘Culloch was admitted a Fellow of the Eoyal Society on 
2nd January 1866, and was a very regular attender at its meetings 
- — generally, indeed, present unless prevented by illness. In his 
later years he was subject to sharp attacks of cold and rheumatism, 
which much impaired his strength and health, and from one of 
which, with other complications, arose his last illness and death. 
Samuel Baleigh, C.A. By David Maclagan, F.R.S.E. 
Mr. Samuel Ealeigh was a native of Galloway, having been 
born on a farm near Castle Douglas held by his father. His early 
education he obtained in the parish school and high school there ; 
where his brother, afterwards a distinguished Nonconformist divine 
in London, was being trained at the same time. After a brief 
apprenticeship to a local solicitor, Samuel Ealeigh resolved to go to 
Edinburgh, and seek there some opening which might afford him an 
opportunity of securing a position of usefulness and success. 
He entered the University as a student at the Law Classes, and 
at once made his mark by carrying off Professor Macvey Napier’s 
first Conveyancing Prize. 
There, as always, he was a man of unwearied industry, and used 
to say that his object in reading systematically the English Classics 
was to acquire a good style of composition. Those who remember 
his power of expression in writing, either on business or more 
general subjects, will recognise how successfully he achieved his 
purpose. 
Very soon he became partner of Mr. William Campbell of Queens- 
hill, Writer to the Signet, like himself a Galloway man. 
It was very well known to Mr. Ealeigh’s friends that his tastes 
