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weak lungs, especially when the wind is from the north. After a 
short illness of ten days, caused by inflammation of the lungs, 
lie died. 
Dr Crawford, besides being a man of great eminence, and most 
highly respected in his own profession, was a person of varied 
attainments. Besides having a knowledge of music, he often took 
his part at amateur vocal concerts, with others — some of whom are 
probably now present among us to-night — and who, I am sure will 
bear me out when I say, and I say it from a long personal 
acquaintance with him, that Dr Crawford was a person of most 
amiable disposition, and most conciliatory in all the relations of 
life. Though he entered into controversy he ever avoided personal 
aspersions ; and those with whom he fought, were always ready to 
admit the fairness with which he wielded his weapons. 
I learn from Dr Crawford’s son, what I had not been aware of, 
that Dr Crawford kept up to the last, his knowledge of mathematics; 
and that frequently, when he was in want of recreation, nothing 
pleased him more than taking a problem and working it out. 
Sir William Jardine, Bart, of Applegarth, in the county of 
Dumfries was born in February 1800, and died 21st November 
1874, He had been fifty years a member of this Society. 
He was the son of the sixth baronet, by a daughter of Thomas 
Maule, the representative of the Earls of Panmure. 
Born in Edinburgh, he was educated partly at home, partly at 
York. With a view to the medical profession, he attended the 
medical classes in Edinburgh. But he did not carry out these 
professional views. Having succeeded his father when he was 
scarcely twenty-one years of age, he took up his residence at his 
family dwelling-place, Jardine Hall. By this time he had evinced 
a strong taste for scientific pursuits, especially natural history in 
all its branches. 
He was a good botanist, a good geologist, and a good ornitho- 
logist. He was also a keen sportsman, both with the gun and the 
rod. Very many specimens in the large and valuable museum 
which he formed at Jardine Hall, were collected by himself. 
In the year 1825 he commenced, in conjunction with the late 
Mr Selby of Twizell, in Northumberland, the publication of the 
