ALPHABETICAL INDEX: WITH REFERENCES TO THE AUTHORITIES WHICH HAVE BEEN MAINLY FOLLOWED IN COMPILING THE SEVERAL MEMOIRS. VOL. I. Page ABERCROMBY, Hon. Alexander, Transactions of the Royal So- ciety of Edin. ABERCROMBY, John, I Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary. ABERCROMBIE, John, M.D., ... I Edin. Quarterly Medical Jour.; Obituaries. ABERCROMBY, Patrick, .... 3 Chalmers' Life of Ruddiman; Douglas' Peerage; Abercrom- by's Martial Achievements; Biographic Universelle. ABERCROMBY, Sir Ralph, ... 3 Public Characters; History of the Expedition to Egypt, &c. ABERDEEN, Earl of (George Hamil- ton Gordon),...... 8 Obituaries of the Journals. ABERNETHY, John,.....II An. Obituary, 1832. ADAM, Alexander,......12 Life by Alex. Henderson; Edin. Monthly Magazine, 1810. ADAM, Robert,.......13 Annual Register, xxxiv.; Scots Magazine, 1803. ADAMSON, Henry,......14 Campbell's Introduction to the History of Scottish Poetry. ADAMSON, Patrick,.....14 Calderwood's History of the Kirk of Scotland, Wodrow Edition; Autobiography and Diary of James Melvil; Bio- graphia Britannica. AGNEW, Sir Andrew,.....21 Playfair's Domestic Antiquities; Sir W. Scott's Tales of a Grandfather; Scots Magazine. AIDAN, Saint,.......23 Bede's Eccles. History. AIKMAN, William, ...... 24 Scots Magazine, 1794; Cunning- ham's Lives of Painters, &c. AINSLIE, Hew,.......25 Dr. Rogers' Modern Scottish Minstrel. AITON, William,.......25 Obituaries of the Magazines. ALES (or ALESSE), Alexander, . . 26 Mackenzie's Lives of Scots Writers. ALEXANDER, William, Earl of Stir- ling, .........26 Biog. Brit.; Bannatyne Miscel- lany ; Scot of Scotstarvet's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen; Johnson and Chalmers' British Poets. ALEXANDER I.,.......28 Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland. ALEXANDER II.,......28 Dalrymple's Annals. Page ALEXANDER III.,......28 Dalrymple's Annals. ALISON, Rev. Archibald, M.A., LL.B.,........29 Penny Cyclopedia; An. Reg.; Gent. Mag. ALLAN, David,.......30 Brown's Scenery Edition of the Gentle Shepherd. ALLAN, George,....... 31 Dr. Rogers' Modern Scottish Minstrel. ALLAN, Robert,....... 32 Dr. Rogers' Modern Scottish Minstrel. ALLAN, Sir William, ..... 32 Art.-Union Journ.; Family In- formation; Obituaries. ALSTON, Charles, M.D., . . . . 35 Pulteney's Sketches of the His- tory of Botany; Bower's His- tory of the University of Edinburgh. ANDERSON, Adam, ......35 Macpherson's Edition of Ander- son's History of Commerce; Chalmers' Gen. Biog. Diet. ANDERSON, Alexander, . . . . 35 Hutton's Mathematical Diet. ANDERSON, Rev. Christopher, . . 36 Life by his Nephew. ANDERSON, James,......37 Chalmers' Ruddiman; Ander- son's Diplomata. ANDERSON, James, D.D., .... 38 ANDERSON, James, LL.D., ... 38 Scots Magazine, 1809; The Bee. ANDERSON, John, M.A., .... 39 Prefaces to his Works; Wodrow's History; Tombstone. ANDERSON, Professor John, ... 40 Gentleman's Magazine, 1796; Glasgow Mechanics' Maga- zine, 1825; Cleland's Annals of Glasgow. ANDERSON, Robert, M.D., ... 41 Annual Biography and Obituary; Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th edition. ANDERSON, Rev. T. G. Torry, . . 42 Dr. Rogers' Modern Scottish Minstrel. ANDERSON, Walter, D.D., ... 42 His Works; Edinburgh Review, 1755; Oral Information. ANDERSON, William,.....43 Family Information; Personal Intercourse. ARBUTHNOT, Alexander, .... 44 Biog. Brit.; Irving's Lives of Scottish Poets; M'Crie's Mel- ville. Page ARBUTHNOT, John, M.D., . . . 44 Biog. Brit.; Retrospective Re- view, viii. ARMSTRONG, John, M.D., . . . . 47 Chalmers' Biog. Diet.; Ander- son's British Poets; Gentle- man's Magazine, 1792. ARNOT, Hugo,.......49 Family Information; Scots Ma- gazine; Obituary. AYTON, Sir Robert,......50 Bannatyne Miscellany; Pinker- ton's Scottish Poems. AYTOUN, Professor William Ed- mondstoune,......51 Blackwood's Magazine, Sept. 1863; Obituaries of the Journals. BAIKIE, Wm. Balfour, M.D., R.N.,. 52 Gentleman's Magazine; Pro- ceedings of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, vol. ix. BAILLIE, Joanna,......53 Family Information. BAILLIE, Matthew, M.D., . . . . 54. Edinburgh Annual Register; An- nual Obituary, 1824. BAILLIE, Robert,......56 Biog. Brit.; Encyclopedia Brit. 7th edition; Baillie's Letters and Journals; Tytler's Life of Lord Kames. BAILLIE, Robert, of Jerviswood, . 58 Burnet's History of his own Times; Kirkton's Church His- tory; Wodrow; Rose's Obser- vations on Fox's Historical Work; Russell's Life of Lord William Russell; Memoirs of LadyGrizel Baillie; Fountain- hall's Notes; Wood's Peerage. BAIRD, Sir David,......60 Annual Obituary, 1830; Royal Military Calendar. BALCANQUEL, Walter, D.D., . . . 62 Life of George Heriot by A. Constable; Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, by Bliss; Boyd's Obituary in Bann. Miscel.; Hales' Golden Remains. BALFOUR, Alexander,.....62 Memoir by Dr. Moir. BALFOUR, Sir Andrew, M.D., . . 63 Edin. Month. Mag. 1810; Scots Mag. 1803; Bower's Hist. Edin. Univ. BALFOUR, Sir James, of Pitten- dreich,........65 Goodall's Preface to his Practicks. BALFOUR, Sir James,.....66 Memoria Balfouriana by Sir R. Sibbald; Scots Mag. 1803; Life prefixed to Haig's edition of his Historical Works; Col- lection of Letters in Advo- cates' Library.