MEMOIR 
OF 
SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 
It would be unpardonable in a work' published 
in Scotland, which professes to include biogra- 
phical notices of all who have aided the progress 
of Natural History, to omit the name of Sir 
Robert Sibbald ; but we regret that, at this 
distance of time, few facts can be recovered re- 
specting his personal history during the latter 
part of his life. In 1695, he committed to 
writing an account of himself, which came into 
the possession of Boswell of Auchinleck, Dr 
Johnson’s biographer, who contemplated the 
publication of it, but this he never performed, 
and the M.S. is now in the Advocates’ Library 
in this city. It has lately been printed by Mr 
Maidment in a limited impression of a volume 
of interesting scraps relative to Scottish history 
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