45. RAINNIE, FORBES. S. P.C. K. Teacher at New Pitsligo, Tyrie, from 1818 to 1834; Scholars numbered from 116 to 169; Salary, 15, with a further sum from the Clerk family of Pitsligo.

46. RAMSAY, ANDREW. S.P.C.K. Teacher at Forest of Birse from 1814 to 1830; Scholars from 48 to 68; Salary, £16.

47. RAMSAY, GEORGE (? son of preceding, No. 46). S.P.C.K. Teacher at Forest of Birse from 1830 to 1834; Scholars from 50 to 68; Salary, £17. 48. REID (Mrs.), ANNE. Teacher of the S. P.C.K. Sewing, &c., School at Balnacroft, Glenmuick, from 1839 to 1844; Scholars, from 27 to 40; Salary, £5. 49. ROBERTSON, Mrs. Succeeded the preceding at Balnacroft from about 1847 to 1853; Salary, £5, increased to £6.

50. SAUNDERS, JOHN. Teacher of the School at New Pitsligo, Tyrie, from 1790 to 1793; Scholars about 28; Salary from the S.P.C.K., £8, with £6 from Sir William Forbes, Bart., of Pitsligo.

51. SHERRIFFs, George. S.P.C.K. Teacher at Forest of Birse, Birse, from 1803 to 1814; Scholars numbered from 44 to 66. Salary at first, £16, increased in 1810 to £17.

52. SIMPSON (Miss), MARGARET. For about a year, 1842, Teacher of the S.P.C.K. Sewing, &c., School at Touch; Salary, £5.

53. SMITH (Miss), MARY. For many years conducted the S.P.C.K. Sewing, &c., School at New Pitsligo, Tyrie-1839 to 1850; Scholars about 46; Salary, £5. In 1850 was superannuated and received a grant of £3 for some years.

54. STEWART, George. S.P.C.K. Teacher at Forest of Birse, Birse, from 1833 to about 1846; Scholars in 1836 were 77, but in 1844 had fallen to 32; Salary, £17.

55. SYMON, JAMES. First stationed at the S. P.C.K. School, Clashmore, Strathdon, where he continued from 1830 to 1836 from 1837 to 1853, or probably later, he was settled at Corgarff; Scholars numbered from 74 to 104; salary at first was £15, increased in later years to £18.

56. TASTARD, ELIZABETH. (?) Daughter of the following (No. 57), Teacher of the S. P.C.K. Spinning, Sewing, &c., School from 1784 to 1803, first at Wester Micras, next at Bomorrel or Bomorril, Crathie (? Balmoral), and in 1803 at Braemar; number of Scholars about 17; Salary, £6.

57. TASTARD, PETER. Was successively stationed, between 1773 and 1781, in the S.P.C.K. Schools at Easter Balmoral, Crathie, Bridge of Girnick, and Wester Micras; Scholars numbered from 34 to 75; the highest roll was in 1780, at Wester Micras, 56 boys and 19 girls. In 1773 the population of Crathie parish was 2253, of whom 832 were Roman Catholics and had two resident Priests.

58. THOMSON, GEORGE. For upwards of 20 years S.P.C.K. Teacher, 1773 to 1793. First was stationed at Ballochan, Glenmuick, then removed to Tordarroch,

sent back to Ballochan, and finally settled at Tordarroch; Scholars numbered from 50 to 75, the highest figures were in 1781, 59 boys and 16 girls; Salary, £14.

59. URQUHART, JOHN. S.P.C. K. Teacher at Newbyth, King-Edward, from 1783 to 1790; Scholars numbered from 48 to 82; Salary, £8, increased to £10, to which Mr. Urquhart of Byth added £2.

60. WHYTE (Miss), MARY. Teacher of the S.P.C.K. Sewing, &c., School, at New Pitsligo, Tyrie, from 1851 to 1853; Salary, £6. Trinity, Edinburgh.

D. W. KEMP.

MESSRS. SOTHEBY'S SALE. The week's sale begun by Messrs. Sotheby on February 26th, marks the commencement in earnest of the 1900 season. Although a drinking tumbler is not of all relics the most satisfactory, yet if properly authenticated, such an object serves to whet the collector's appetite. On one side of the glass tumbler referred to is an engraved copy of Burns's seal, and on the other the following inscription, in alternate lines of small and capital letters :-"This glass, once the property of Robert Burns, was presented by the poet's widow to James Robinson, Esq., and given by his widow to her son-in-law, Major James Glencairn Burns, 1840." The relic is enclosed in an oak case, made partly from one of the piles of old London Bridge, partly from timber from the Royal George, and a holograph letter from Mrs. Hutchinson, grand-daughter of the poet, to Mr. Muir, the present owner, goes to the purchaser. Mrs. Hutchinson says that Burns possessed four of these glasses, of which one has been broken. As indicated by the inscription, Jean Armour gave this one to Mr. James Robinson, of Sunderland. A copy of the first Edinburgh edition of Burns which is to be sold is in unusually fine condition. It is uncut, and the original boards have the label on the back. Of books printed at Aberdeen, we have a large copy of the first edition, in original vellum binding, of Johnston's "Paraphrasis Poetica Psalmorum Davidis," issued by the town's first printer, Raban, in 1637; the "Faithfull Copie of papers exchanged betwixt John Menzies and F. Dempster," with the woodcut Arms of Aberdeen, printed by John Forbes, 1668; and 18 volumes of Aberdeen Almanacks, 1802-25, containing among other things particulars of Scottish regiments in America. A first edition of the "Memoir of John Howie of Lochgoin," Glasgow, 1796, is the one given by Sir Walter Scott to C. K. Sharpe, while of Scott's own works there is a lot comprising 74 volumes, nearly all first editions.

Laurence Browne, D.D., LL.D., Principal of Masenhal [sic] College, Aberdeen, Dean of the Thistle, and of the Chapel Royal, who was grand-nephew of Sir John Browne, second baronet. Oliver Cromwell and General Lambert passed a night in the fine old tower of Fordel, Perth (which originally belonged to the family), on July 17th, 1651, where they somewhat spitefully turned all their horses loose among General Browne's standing corn. The pedigree goes back to Sir John Brown, High Sheriff of Aberdeen in 1320."

Extract of Matriculation of the Arms of the
Royal Burgh of Inverness.

William Macbean, Esquire, Provost, and the Magistrates and Town Council of the Royal Burgh of Inverness having, by petition to the Lyon King of Arms, of date the 29th day of May last, represented that certain ensigns armorial were borne by the said Royal Burgh prior to the passing of the Act of Parliament 1672 cap. 47, which arms by inadvertence had not been recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland in terms of the said statute, and the said petitioners having prayed that the aforesaid Arms might be matriculated in the said Public Register, his lordship by interlocutor of this date granted warrant to the Lyon Clerk to matriculate in the name of the petitioners, the Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Royal Burgh of Inverness and of their successors in office and of the said Royal Burgh the following ensigns armorial as depicted upon the margin hereof and matriculated of even date with these presents in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, viz., Gules Our Lord upon the Cross proper. Above the shield is placed a suitable helmet with a mantling Gules double Or; and upon a wreath of their proper liveries is set for crest a Cornucopia proper and in an escrol over the same this motto "Concordia et Fidelitas"; and upon a compartment below the shield are placed for sup porters on the dexter side a Dromedary and on the sinister side an Elephant both proper.

Matriculated the ninth day of February One thousand nine hundred.

Extracted furth of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.

FRANCIS J. GRANT, Lyon Clerk.

ABERDEEN - AMERICAN GRADUATES.

(I., 137; V., I, 125, 144; VII., 14, 54, 76, 141, 175; VIII., 127; IX., 15; X., 93, 170; XI., 173; XII., 66, 94, 127, 142, 159; 2nd S., I., 7, 31, 47, 59, 64, 95, 127, 155.)

63. Rev. JAMES HONEYMAN, a Scotchman, missionary at Jamaica, L.I., 1703-04, and thence translated to Newport, Rhode Island, where he died in extreme old age, on July 2nd, 1750, after a very energetic and useful life, could not have been the graduate at Marischal College in 1763; although he may have been the son of the first James Honeyman, minister of Kinneff, because the Honeymans were ministers of Kinneff for four generations, 1663-1781 (Digest S.P.G., 42, 47, 853, 855; Tiffany Hist. Episc. Ch., 106, 272; Rec. Mar. Coll., ii., 270, 331, 333). There is evidently room for more enquiry.

64. Rev. CHarles Calder MACKINTOSH, D.D. (I., 2nd S., 127), native of Ross, graduated at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1821 (King's Coll. Grad., 278), and became F. C. minister at Dunoon. He received the degree of D.D. from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1850, when he was minister at Tain (Gen. Cat., Union Coll., Schenectady, N. Y., p. 83).

65. Rev. FRANCIS NICOLL, D.D. (I., 2nd S., 127), third son of John Nicoll, merchant in Lossiemouth, was born there in 1770, graduated at King's College in 1789, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Elgin in 1793. He was presented to the parish of Auchtertool, Fifeshire, by the Earl of Moray, in 1797; two years later was appointed to the parish of Mains and Strathmartin, Forfarshire, and, while there, he received the degree of D.D. from the University of St. Andrews, in 1807. In 1817 he was presented by the Prince Regent to the parish of St. Leonards, in Fife, and the same year was made Principal of the United Colleges of St. Leonard and St. Salvator. He was chosen to be Rector of St. Andrews University in 1822, and died, Cctober 8th, 1835. So far as I can find, he had no American affiliation (King's Coll. Grad., 261 ; Dict. Nat. Biog., xli., 46).

66. JAMES LOGAN, artist in London, was born in Aberdeen about 1794, and is said by his biographer to have been educated at the Grammar School and at Marischal College; but his name does not appear in Rec. Mar. Coll., vol. ii. His chief literary produc tion was "The Scottish Gaël, or Celtic Manners," first published in London, 2 vols., 1831; again, with memoir, by Dr. A. Stewart, 2 vols., 1876. Mr. Logan died 1872. An American edition of "The Scottish Gael," in one volume, was published in Hartford, Conn., in 1843, and again in 1850. It has a lengthy title-page, adorned with a Scotch thistle surmounted with an imperial crown and low cross, "The Scottish Gaël, or Celtic Manners, being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities and National Peculiarities of Scotland:

more particularly of the Northern or Gaëlic parts of the country, where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained; by James Logan, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 'The most interesting and important of all history is the history of manners'-Warton. First American edition, Hartford, S. Andrus & Son, 1843.” It has three full-page frontispieces: (1) two Highland chiefs, dressed in the Stewart and the Gordon tartans (but uncoloured); (2) the Royal Arms of Scotland, fully displayed (again in mere outline); (3) a Highland bagpiper, dressed in the tartan of the 42nd Regiment (also uncoloured). These were the only American editions, and the published price was $200. (For his life, see Dr. Stewart's Memoir; Dict. Nat. Biog., xxxiv., 83; Cart. Eccl. S. Nich., Aberd., ii., 444.)

67. Professor JOHN FRASER was born at Cromarty, March 22, 1827, and graduated at King's College in 1844, the Hutton prizeman of 1843 (King's Coll. Grad., 297). He went as a teacher to the Bermudas, but, on account of the climate, had to remove to America, and, after the usual experiences of a stranger, was made principal of an academy in Lafayette Co., Pa. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Jefferson College, Pa. Resigning this position in order to enter the army, he accepted, after the war, the presidency of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College, from which, in 1868, he became Chancellor of the University of Kansas, and continued until 1875 to work hard in building up the young institution. He was elected Superintendent of Education in Kansas in 1875, and, on the expiry of his term of office, he was made Professor of Political Economy, Civil Government, and International Law, in the Western University of Pennsylvania. He died suddenly at Allegheny City, on June 4, 1878. (Report of Commissioner of Education, 1878, p. 80.)

68. Rev. DONALD FRASER, D.D., a native of Inverness, was born in 1826, and graduated at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1842. His theological course he took at Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, and at New College, Edinburgh. He returned to Canada, and was Presbyterian minister at Montreal, 1851-9; was at Inverness, Scotland, 1859-70, and at Marylebone Presbyterian Church, London, 1870-92, when he died, February 12, 1892. He received from the University of Aberdeen, in 1872, the degree of D.D. He published-Synoptical Lectures on the Books of the Holy Scripture, 3 vols., 1871-6 (the lectures on the New Testament in Italian, Florence, 1878); The Church of God and the Apostacy; Life of Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D., 1881; The Speeches of the Holy Apostles, 1882; Seven Promises Propounded; Metaphors in the Gospels, 1885; Mary Jane, Lady Kinnaird; Sound Doctrine, 1892. (Johnson's Univ. Cyclop., iii., 547.)

West Hartford, Conn., Mar. 14th, 1900.

JAMES GAMMACK, LL.D.