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to offer himself, if possible, for military service, and finally enlisted as 
a private in the 14th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was just 
on the point of receiving a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery 
when he died in a Military Hospital in the prime of life on December 26, 
1915. On May 25, 1914, Mr Darbishire and Mr M. W. Gray communicated 
a paper “ On the Inheritance of Certain Characters of the Wool of Sheep.” 
Unfortunately the MS. was left by him in an incomplete form, and has 
never yet been published. Several chapters of an unfinished work have 
been edited by his sister, Miss Helen Darbishire, under the title An 
Introduction to a Biology and other Papers (Cassell, 1916). 
He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1912. 
David Douglas was born at Stranraer in 1823, and was educated at 
Whithorn. In 1838 he came to Edinburgh, and shortly afterwards entered 
the employment of Messrs Blackwood, with whom he remained till 1847. 
He then formed the well-known firm of Edmonston & Douglas, publishers. 
He was an intimate friend of such well-known writers as Dr John Brown, 
the Rev. Dr Hanna, Cosmo Innes, and David Laing. His, connection with 
the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh brought him into close associa- 
tion with Thackeray and Dickens. In 1877 the firm of Edmonston & 
Douglas was dissolved, but Mr Douglas continued his labours as one of 
the firm of Douglas & Foulis. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1866, 
and died in Edinburgh on April 4, 1916, at the advanced age of ninety-one. 
Norman Hay Forbes, F.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., was 
born at Rawal Pindi, in the Punjab, on March 1, 1863, and was educated 
at the Bedford Grammar School and at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. He 
received his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, and thereafter 
served for three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He finally 
settled at Church Stretton, Shropshire. He wrote a number of papers on 
medical subjects, which include “ Observations on the Climate and Health 
Resorts of Scotland,” and on the “ Shropshire Highlands,” and especially 
“Church Stretton as a Climatic Health Resort and After-Cure Station.” 
He also contributed an article on “ Food and Dietetics ” to the Practitioners 
Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Surgery. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1904, 
and died on June 27, 1916. 
J. A. Harvie-Brown, LL.D., F.Z.S., of Dunipace House, near Larbert, 
was born in 1844. He was a keen zoologist, especially in the department 
