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Professor Jenkin began his education at a school in Jedburgh, 
from which he passed to the Edinburgh Academy. Subsequently 
he visited Germany, France, and Italy, staying in each country long 
enough to master the language. He took his M.A. degree at Genoa 
University, after which he proceeded to Marseilles, where he began 
the practical work of life in the employment of a Locomotive 
Steam-engine Company. Thereafter he returned to England, and, 
becoming an associate of the Institute of Civil Engineers, soon 
advanced into more extended and profitable employment. 
Thomas C. Archer , Director of the Museum of Science and Art, 
died on 17th February last, very suddenly, in a hotel in London, 
whilst speaking to his daughter, though then apparently in his 
usual health. 
He had been in charge of our Museum since the year 1860, having 
been appointed on the death of Professor George Wilson, who was 
then Director of that Institution. 
Mr Archer directed his whole time and thought to the procuring 
of objects of interest for the Museum, not only by purchases at 
the expense of Government, but even by occasionally obtaining 
temporary loans for exhibition of valuable objects from individuals 
to whom they belonged. 
He went frequently to the Continent in search of specimens, and 
in 1876 he was sent as Joint British Commissioner to the Phila- 
delphia Exhibition of Arts and Industry. He had great business 
tact, and, in particular, never omitted any favourable opportunity 
of pressing the Government for additional grants to extend or en- 
large the buildings, to accommodate the stores he collected, and of 
which he generally contrived to show a supply in boxes unpacked, 
to prove the necessity of more space for his treasures. 
I am not aware that he ever took any part in the business of our 
Society. 
Professor Morrison Watson , who died on the 25 th March last, at 
the early age of thirty-nine, began his short life of usefulness by re- 
ceiving his educational training in Edinburgh. He took a degree in 
our University as Doctor of Medicine, receiving for his thesis a gold 
medal. He became Fellow of the Boyal College of Physicians, a 
Fellow of our Eoyal Society, and subsequently a Fellow of the 
Zoological Society of London. For some years he was Demon- 
