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where he took the degree of M.D. in 1858. For some years 
he was Professor of Experimental Science in the Government 
Engineering College, Rourkee, and Examiner in Chemistry for the 
Government in the North- West Provinces of India. He obtained 
a gold medal from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on 
“Sulphureous Mineral Waters,” and was author of a Prize Essay 
on “The Mineral Waters of Scotland.” He was also author of 
“ Analytical Tables for the Use of Students of Medicine ” ; 
“Instruction in the Analyses of Waters and Cement and Lime- 
stones ” ; “ Absorption by the Human Skin,” and other treatises. 
He died on 16th January of the present year. He became a Fellow 
of the Society in 1863. 
It is unnecessary to refer to the career of our much regretted 
Fellow, Dr Cleghorn of Stravithie, as Professor MTntosh has 
already communicated to the Society a full and interesting sketch 
of his life. 
Mr Peter Denny was born at Dumbarton in 1820. He was 
head of the well-known firm of William Denny and Brothers, 
which has launched over 500 vessels, representing upwards of 
600,000 tons. The firm’s shipbuilding establishment is admittedly 
one of the most complete and scientifically equipped in this 
country or elsewhere. Mr Denny was also the founder of the 
large engineering establishment of Denny & Co. In 1870 he was 
appointed one of a Parliamentary Committee on designs of ships 
of war. He was for some time Provost of Dumbarton, and, before 
the days of school-boards, maintained in that town a school for the 
children of the poorer classes. Subsequently he founded several 
bursaries to be competed for by pupils under the local School 
Board. He received the degree of LL.D. from Glasgow, and was 
decorated with several foreign orders of knighthood. He became 
a Fellow of this Society in 1876. 
Mr Alexander Goodman More, in conjunction with Dr David 
Moore, published in 1866 an excellent account of the geographical 
distribution of plants in Ireland, under the title of “ Contributions 
towards a Cybele Hibernica.” He also prepared a list of the 
birds of Ireland in 1885, in connection with the Dublin Science 
and Art Museum ; and subsequently published a capital guide to 
the Natural History Department of the same institution. He 
