TRIBUTE TO HIS SERVICES 
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The minute of the College of 21st April follow¬ 
ing bears that, on the motion of the President, Dr 
Huie, seconded by Dr Maclagan, the College 
“unanimously resolved to put on record the 
high sense which they entertain of the value and 
efficiency of Mr MacGillivray’s services as Con¬ 
servator of the Museum of the College for the last 
ten years, and to convey to him through their 
President their sincere congratulations on his 
appointment to the Professorship of Civil and 
Natural History in Marischal College, together 
with their best wishes for his comfort and success 
in that new department of public duty.” 
Thus ended MacGillivray’s career in connection 
with the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, in the 
course of which he had shown in a marked degree 
those qualities which specially fitted him for a 
higher sphere of usefulness in connection with 
natural science, to which he had so zealously and 
exclusively devoted himself for upwards of twenty 
years ; and now we come to the fifth and final period 
of his life’s work. 
His name had already become famous as an 
ornithologist by the publication of the first three 
volumes of his History of British Birds; but before 
referring specially to that final period, some account 
must be given of his other work during the ten 
years of his connection with the Museum. 
His duties there—-constant and arduous as they 
were, and much as they occupied his time and 
thought—formed but a part of the work which he 
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