Rarely, indeed, have the interests served by this Journal sustained a greater loss than in the premature removal from our midst of the Rev. Hugh Alexander Macpherson. A sudden attack of inflammation, resulting from exposure to inclement weather, on a constitution never quite robust, came on the 23rd, and on the 26th November a bright existence passed away.
A member of an ancient branch of the Clan, that has given many members to high public service, he first saw the light in Calcutta, forty-three years ago, the eldest son of Mr. William Macpherson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, editor of the 'Quarterly Review.' His grandfather was Dr. Macpherson, Professor of Greek in King's College, Aberdeen. Educated at Haileybury and Oriel College, Oxford, he received the degree of B.A. in 1881, and M.A. (with honours) in 1884. He was ordained to the ministry in 1882, and served as curate of St. James's, Carlisle, till 1885, when he went to London, and held curacies in Upper Holloway and Paddington. He came back to Carlisle three years later, and remained there in various ecclesiastical offices till 1897, when he accepted the incumbency of Allonby, close by the ever-troubled waters of the Solway Firth. About a couple of years ago he removed to another charge at Pitlochry, in the Central Highlands, where a busy life has closed all too soon. Although a Highlandman, his heart was where his life's work had been done, and by his own wishes his body was laid to rest in the cemetery of the old Border City he loved so well by a great company of mourners, and amidst numerous manifestations of public grief.
As a naturalist, Macpherson possessed a rare—almost a unique—combination of qualifications; he was equally eminent in both field and cabinet work, while as a scholar he wielded a pen of high literary excellence. Indefatigable in his outdoor
