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evil. The opening of new streets will not alone he sufficient; the 
houses that remain must be so altered that they will admit light 
and fresh air, which, in many cases, are at present almost entirely 
excluded. We have visited dwellings in the Gfrassmarket and West 
Port, situated in airy localities, but which, by simply being out of 
repair and not having sufficient ventilation, are really uninhabitable. 
We cannot insist too strongly on the absolute necessity there is 
for the authorities directing their attention to this point. Where 
proprietors receive a sufficient return, they must be compelled to 
do their duty in this respect ; and in cases where they can on good 
ground plead inability, the work must be done for them. The labour 
is so formidable that it will task the whole energies of the civic 
authorities, and yet leave much to be done by private benevolence.” 
In proceeding to give you a brief notice of the Fellows of the 
Society who have died during the present year, I regret to say 
that their number is greater than usual, and that we have to lament 
the loss of some of our most distinguished members. 
David Craigie, an eminent Physician, was born in Leith on the 
6th June 1793. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1809, 
where he was distinguished by his classical acquirements and by 
his successful study of several of the Eastern languages, especially 
Hebrew and Persian. In 1816 he took the degree of M.D. in the 
University — the subject of his thesis being De Vita Animali. 
In 1818 he became a Member, and in 1819 one of the Presidents 
of the Royal Medical Society. Soon after this he gave two courses 
of lectures on Anatomy. Between 1820 and 1827 he assisted 
Dr Andrew Duncan in the editorship of the “ The Edinburgh 
Medical and Surgical Journal,” which Dr Duncan had founded iri 
1805. In 1827 Dr Christison joined Dr Craigie in editing this 
important journal, and this joint editorship continued till 1832, 
when Dr Christison was appointed to the Chair of Materia Medica, 
and from that time till 1855 Dr Craigie was its sole proprietor and 
editor. In 1832 Dr Craigie was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
College of Physicians, and in the following year a Fellow of the 
Royal Society, to whose Transactions he does not seem to have con- 
tributed. In 1833 he succeeded Dr James Gregory as physician to 
the Royal Infirmary ; and while he lectured on Practical Medicine, 
