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he gave a course of Clinical Medicine, and published for several 
years Clinical Beports, which contain much valuable information. 
For a number of years from 1846 Dr Craigie was prevented by 
ill health from carrying on the active duties of his profession, but 
he had so far recovered in 1858 that he was appointed one of the 
Examiners of the College of Physicians, a duty which on several 
occasions he performed for the University of St Andrews, who gave 
Degrees to candidates who had not studied at the United College. 
In December 1861 he was elected President of the Boyal College 
of Physicians, and he was able to preside at the dinner given on 
the 12th October 1863 to the Social Science Congress, at which 
Prince Alfred, Lord Brougham, and other eminent individuals were 
present. His health now began to give way ; hut though he 
regained it after a journey to Devonshire, symptoms of a serious 
disease appeared, and he died on the 17th May 1866, when he had 
nearly completed his seventy-third year. 
Dr Craigie’s principal works are his “ Elements of General and 
Pathological Anatomy,” and his “ Elements of the Practice of 
Medicine,” both of which have been much esteemed by the 
medical profession. The first of these was published in 1828, and 
was republished in 1848 in a second and enlarged edition. The 
second appeared in 1836, and displayed great erudition and pro- 
fessional knowledge, but owing to the high price at which it was 
published it had a comparatively limited circulation. 
Sir John Hepburn Stuart Forbes was horn at Dean House, 
Edinburgh, on the 25th September 1804. He was the second son 
of Sir William Forbes, who was a Fellow of this Society from 1804 
till his death, and who was frequently a Member of Council. Sir 
William was an early friend of Sir Walter Scott, who in the fourth 
canto of Marmion, inscribed to his brother-in-law, Mr Skene, thus 
justly describes him 
And thou and I and dear loved R — (Rae), 
And one whose name I may not say, 
For not Mimosa’s tender tree 
Shrinks sooner from the touch than he. 
Sir William, the grandfather of Sir John, and the author of the 
life of Dr Beattie (who became in 1783 an original Member of the 
Royal Society), was in the same poem thus truly characterised : — 
