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Edinburgh. He devoted himself to the study of Law, and be&ame 
a Member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1853. He had a fair, but 
not what is regarded as a large, practice at the Ear ; but he was 
noted for his earnest devotion to his duties both as Barrister and 
subsequently as a Judge. He was made an Advocate-Depute in 
1867, and held that office till he was appointed Sheriff of Stirling 
and Dumbarton in 1875, from which he was transferred to the 
more important Sheriffship of Perthshire. He was for many years 
Procurator of the Church of Scotland, and performed the duties of 
that legal office with much earnestness and general acceptance. He 
was raised to the Bench in 1880. He formed his opinions slowly, 
deliberately, and conscientiously, and was very tenacious of them 
when once formed, his firmness in this respect being by some 
cynical people called obstinacy. His leading characteristics were his 
earnestness of purpose, and his unwearied patience. He became a 
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1872, but did not take any special 
part in its proceedings. In private life he was much esteemed, and 
had a considerable fund of genuine humour. Robert Lee was for a 
long time in delicate health, suffering for many years from bronchial 
asthma. He had been enjoying in Ireland a holiday, which he 
had intended extending to St Andrews, but a sharp inflammatory 
attack came on, and proved fatal on 11th October 1890. He left 
a widow, daughter of the late Dr Borthwick of Edinburgh, and a 
family of three sons and three daughters. 
Mr David Grieve was educated at the University of Edinburgh, 
and became a solicitor-at-law. He subsequently entered H.M. 
Customs, and was collector at Banff, Great Grimsby, and Dover. 
He took much interest in .Natural Science, particularly in Geology 
and Anthropology. He made a large collection of fossils. He was 
several times President of the Royal Physical Society, and was elected 
a Fellow of this Society in 1872. He died in June of last year. 
As Medical Science sustained a great loss in Matthews Duncan, so 
did Classical Literature in the person of Professor William Young 
Sellar. There was a considerable parallelism between the two men 
in their earnest devotion to work, in their clearness of judgment, 
and, above all, in their contempt for everything that was not in 
accordance with the highest ethical standards. 
Professor Sellar was the son of the late Mr Patrick Sellar, and was 
