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With the details of his rule we are not here concerned : and it 
must suffice to say, that he proved himself to be active, energetic, 
tolerant, and accessible. If, as seems possible, these qualities were 
more quickly recognised by the clergy than by the laity of his 
communion, this may have arisen from the fact that the former, 
being brought into more immediate contact, saw most of him, and 
that his good gifts were of a character that required such intercourse 
to bring them out in all their fulness. 
He was greatly interested in the proceedings of this Royal Society 
of Edinburgh, of which he was elected a Fellow soon after his 
arrival in Scotland. He was chosen a member of the Council, and 
subsequently one of the Vice-Presidents. If he did not contribute 
any papers, such as the valuable ones supplied by his predecessor, 
Bishop Terrot, it must be remembered that the clerical duties of the 
occupant of his post had been largely increased. Most especially 
during eight years (1871-1879) his mind was occupied with the 
erection and organisation of the Cathedral, which sprung from the 
munificent bequest of Barbara and Mary Walker. In this com- 
plicated task he was held to have been eminently successful. It 
is perhaps permissible to remark that, in his association with the 
savans of this Society and of the University he expressed himself 
as greatly gratified with the large amount of ability among the 
votaries of physical science, which was ranged upon the side of 
belief, in that great contest with unbelief, which Goethe in well- 
known words has declared to be “ the proper, peculiar, and deepest 
theme of universal and human history.” 
It remains to say something concerning the indirect and the 
direct influence of his academical studies upon his professional life. 
Indirectly it taught him, as it has taught so many academical 
students, not to be satisfied with mere surface work in any depart- 
ment of study. Two illustrations, out of several that might be 
adduced, will serve to illustrate my meaning. 
At Madras, during the tenure of his East Indian chaplaincy, he 
was brought into controversy with some of our Roman Catholic 
fellow-Christians. Hot content to take the account of their tenets 
from hearsay and popular estimate, he made a serious study of 
the works of a famous champion of Roman theology, Cardinal 
Bellarmine; and to the close of his life he was able to cite concessions 
