ii Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
was chosen President. He was also an active member of the 
Educational Institute of Scotland, his position as Secretary of 
the local branch entailing upon him a considerable amount of 
organising work. He was an ardent Free Churchman and took 
a keen interest in the Home Mission work of the Free High 
Church, in which he also served as interim session-clerk for two 
years. 
His death on 8th December 1896, after a few days’ illness, gave 
a great shock to his many friends, to whom he had endeared him- 
self by his quiet, unobtrusive, but truly manly worth. 
