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the great Dr Chalmers. He attended his father’s school, and 
afterwards completed his education at Edinburgh University. He 
entered into partnership with the Messrs Cowan, papermakers, 
and subsequently took over the business. He was a Fellow of the 
Scottish Society of Antiquaries, antiquarian research, indeed, 
occupying much of his leisure time. He died on 2nd May 1899. 
He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1866. 
Kobert Cox, M.P., was born at Gorgie House in May 1845, 
and was educated at Loretto School, afterwards at the College 
Hall, St Andrews, and the University of Edinburgh. In 1892 
Mr Cox stood as candidate for the Kirkcaldy Burghs, but was 
unsuccessful. In 1895 he stood as candidate for South Edinburgh, 
and gained the seat. He was a man of wide culture, had a con- 
siderable knowledge of mechanics, and his love of music induced 
him to present St Cuthbert’s Church with a magnificent organ. 
He took a deep interest in the development of the City of Edin- 
burgh Observatory, and presented it with a valuable reflecting 
telescope of 13 inches aperture, equatorially mounted. He married 
the daughter of Dr Hughes Bennett, Professor of Medicine in the 
University of Edinburgh. He died on 2nd June 1899. He was 
elected a Fellow of this Society in 1879. 
Dr John Duncan was educated at the High School of Edin- 
burgh, and thereafter graduated with distinction in the University 
of Edinburgh in 1862. He became a Fellow of the Boyal College 
of Surgeons in 1864, and eventually filled the presidential chair of 
that body. He was in charge of wards in the Infirmary for 
twenty years. He gave courses of systematic lectures in the extra- 
mural school, and finally attracted one of the largest classes of 
surgery there. He died on 24th August 1899. He was elected a 
Fellow of this Society in 1870. 
James Simpson Fleming. Born at Forfar in 1828, he began 
business as a solicitor in Glasgow. In 1854 he accepted the appoint- 
ment of Law Officer of the Western Bank, and subsequently, when 
only twenty-nine years of age, he was appointed manager pro tempore 
of the bank, which had to close its doors in 1857. He was one of 
its four liquidators. From 1853 to 1871 he was a partner in the 
legal firm in Glasgow of M‘Gregor, Stevenson & Fleming, and 
during nearly the whole of that period he was Secretary of the 
