MEMOIR OP DR. WALKER. 
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parish of Strath, in the isle of Skye, requires some 
immediate attention. LauchlanM‘Kinnon has taught 
in it since the year 1759, hut is now become so old 
and decayed, as not to he able to teach it with that 
success that might be expected. The minister of 
the parish, Mr. Donald Nicholson, a man of uncom- 
mon probity and goodness, did not incline to prefer 
any complaint against the poor old man, but did 
not propose again to attest the school.” 
Appended to the Report were the following pro- 
positions. 
“ That the distribution of the royal bounty he 
confined to those parishes in which the Gaelic lan- 
guage is preached. — That one-fourth of the present 
catechists he employed as schoolmasters. — That no 
parochial schoolmaster receive a salary as a catechist. 
— That the presbyteries be enjoined to prosecute 
the erection of legal schools in those parishes where 
they are wanting.” 
As long as Dr. Walker continued at Moffat, his 
correspondence with Lord Karnes was uninter- 
rupted ; and in the Life of his lordship have been 
preserved several letters addressed to him on sub- 
jects of physiology and natural history, when he 
was engaged in writing his “ Sketches of the History 
of Man,” which appear chiefly to have been replies 
to queries respecting the subject of his investiga- 
tions. The first, dated February 18, 1773, on the 
analogy between man and the inferior animals, and 
that between animals and vegetables, is extremely 
curious, in the course of which he produces a num- 
