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John Muir’s eminence as a scholar obtained for him the honorary 
degrees of D.C.L. from the Oxford University, of LL.D. from 
the Edinburgh University, and of Doctor of Philosophy from the 
University of Bonn ; as well as the title of a corresponding member 
of the French Academy, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 
and a foreign member of the Leyden Society for the Cultivation of 
Dutch Literature. He joined the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 
1861, and at their meeting on Eeb. 16, 1863, he read, by request 
of the Council, a highly interesting paper “ On the Recent Progress 
of Sanskrit Studies.” This and several other papers contributed by 
him were published in the Society’s Transactions. 
John Muir was loved by all who knew him for his extreme kind- 
heartedness and truthfulness, his love of humanity, and the purity 
of his life. His memory ought to be. dear to every Scotsman. 
Dr. Charles Morehead. By James Sanderson, E.R.C.S.E., 
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Madras Army. 
Dr. Charles Morehead, C.I.E., M.D. Edin., F.R.C.P. Lond., 
and Honorary Surgeon to Her Majesty, was born in Edinburgh 
in 1807, and died suddenly at Wilton Castle, Redcar, Yorkshire, 
on the 24th of August 1882, in the 75th year of his age. He was 
the second son of the Rev. Robert Morehead, D.D., Dean of 
Edinburgh, and afterwards rector of Easington, Yorkshire. His 
mother was Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Charles Wilson, Pro- 
fessor of Church History in the University of St. Andrews. 
He was educated at the High School of Edinburgh, for which 
through life he cherished a strong affection, and at the time of his 
death was one of the very few remaining members of the Carson 
Club. He entered the medical classes in the University of Edin- 
burgh about 1825, where he distinguished himself as a student 
more particularly in the science classes. In the early part of his 
studies he manifested great ardour in the study of clinical medicine, 
and soon attracted the attention of Professor Alison, whose clerk he 
became at the end of his course. 
Dr. Morehead graduated as M.D. in 1828, and thereafter prose- 
cuted his medical studies for upwards of a year in Paris, under the 
