of Edinburgh, Session 1870-71. 259 
On the 16th December 1850. Notice of a Roman Practitioner’s 
Medicine Stamp, found near Tranent. 
On the 6th March 1857. History of an Anencephalic Child. 
On the 19th December 1859. On Acupressure, a New Method 
of arresting Haemorrhage. 
On the 6th April 1863. Note on the Anatomical Type in the 
Funis Umbilicalis and Placenta. (Transactions, Yol. XXIII.) 
On the same night. Note on a Pictish inscription in the Church¬ 
yard of St Yigeans. 
On the 2d January 1866. Notices of some Ancient Sculptures 
on the walls of caves in Fife. 
On the 26th January 1868. Pyramidal Structures in Egypt and 
elsewhere ; and the objects of their erection. 
With reference to this last paper, the chief purpose of which was 
to refute Professor Piazzi Smyth’s theory about the origin and 
object of the G-reat Pyramid of Egypt, it has been publicly 
stated, by a person who alleges he knew the fact, that to enable 
him to test the correctness of Professor Smyth’s calculations, and 
to write the papers above referred to, he devoted three weeks to a 
study of decimals and a perusal of astronomical works;—a pro¬ 
ceeding which shows the zeal and energy with which, even at a late 
period of life, he could take up a new subject. 
Another Society, unconnected with the profession which he 
joined, and in the business of which he took almost inconceivable 
interest, was that of the Antiquaries of Scotland. Every volume 
of the “ Transactions ” of that Society, after he joined it in the 
year 1859, teems with notices from his pen ; and a very consider¬ 
able number of the articles in the Society’s instructive museum 
were donations from him. I have heard that he had formed a 
kind of map or glossary applicable to both England and Scotland, 
showing the sites of curious old buildings, camps, or stand¬ 
ing stones; so that on the occasion of making any professional 
visits to districts where these relics occurred, he might contrive to 
see them. 
When made a Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, he 
delivered an address, which for archaeological lore and acquaint¬ 
ance with the early history of Scotland, astonished those who had 
made this subject a special study all their lives. This address was 
