A tribute of regard to the memory of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., portrait painter to the King for Scotland : read at the forty-third anniversary meeting of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A tribute of regard to the memory of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., portrait painter to the King for Scotland : read at the forty-third anniversary meeting of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n affection of every discerning Teacher. Among other grounds of attachment, I had the happiness of putting into Charles Darwin’s hands the first prize, given by this Society, for promoting experimental inquiry. That prize was awarded to him for an essay, establishing a criterion between purulent and mucaginous expectoration in pul¬ monary complaints, which afforded demonstrative evidence both of great industry and great genius. On the death of young Darwin, whose body was deposited in my burying-ground, at the Cha¬ pel of St Cuthbert’s, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, as is recorded in Gne of his father’s publications, I was anxious to retain some slight token in re¬ membrance, of my highly esteemed young friend; and, for that purpose, I obtained a small portion of his hair. I applied to Mr Gilliland, at that time an eminent jeweller in Edinburgh, to have it preserved in a mourning ring. He told me, that one of his present apprentices was a young man of great genius, and could prepare for me in hair, a memorial that would demonstrate both taste and art. Young Haeeurn was im¬ mediately called, and proposed to execute, on a