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amputation, he paid special attention, and has done much to advance 
our knowledge. 
James Spence is an example of a man who slowly rose to eminence 
by earnest, honest work. He will he remembered as a teacher who 
had always something worth telling on every practical question, and 
who told it in a way easily remembered. His systematic lectures 
were essentially clinical. 
Much loved by those who knew him best, his memory will long 
remain in the Edinburgh school as. a faithful teacher, a good 
operator, and a kind friend. 
Frederick Hallard. By Thomas M‘Kie, Advocate. 
Frederick Hallard, Advocate, senior Sheriff-Substitute of Mid- 
Lothian, died in this city on 12th January 1882, aged sixty-one. 
His father was a soldier in the French army, who, after the Bevolu- 
tion of 1793, emigrated to this country, and, along with other 
Boyalist refugees, took up his abode in Edinburgh as a teacher of 
his native language. Here he married, lived, and died. His son 
Frederick was born in this city in May 1821. At the age of four, 
he was taken to Avranches, his paternal home in Normandy; and 
there, and at Paris, he received a sound, and liberal education. At 
sixteen he returned to Edinburgh. The strong affection he always 
had for the city of his birth arose not more from admiration of its 
material beauty, than out of regard for its intellectual renown, and 
the friendly intercourse which existed between it and France in the 
olden time. Being destined for the Scotch bar, young Hallard attended 
the usual classes at the University of Edinburgh, and proved himself 
a diligent and distinguished student. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1844, joined the Speculative Society, and after acting for some 
years as a reporter on the Jurist , he was, in 1855, appointed by the 
late Sheriff Gordon junior Sheriff-Substitute for Mid-Lothian. 
From that time until his death, he discharged the duties of his 
office with a manly independence of spirit and judicial integrity of 
purpose, rarely equalled. The year before his judicial appointment, 
he married Mary Carr Bobertson, a daughter of the late Mr. James 
Bobertson of this city. The marriage was one of affection, and for 
