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The specially heavy work of the preceding session the session in which, as already described, he had undertaken part of the work of the Church History class in addition to the full tale of his own had overtaxed his strength, and, acting on the advice of Dr. Maclagan and his Edinburgh medical adviser, he had cancelled all his engagements for the summer.
Maclagan, Webster, and G.W. Balfour, who certified that he was "unfit for the discharge of any professional duty." After consulting his relatives, he decided to resign his Professorship and the Principalship of the College, and on the 23rd a letter intimating this intention was drafted and despatched.
As the storm subsided, Beetle fanned it afresh. "Eh? What? What was that you were saying to MacLagan?" "I only said I thought the papers ought to have been looked at before they were given out, sir." "Hear, hear!" from a back bench. Mr. King wished to know whether Beetle took it upon himself personally to conduct the traditions of the school.
But it is not the only tree of South America whose bark may be used as a substitute for quinine. They may be counted possibly by dozens. 'Dr. Maclagan has shown, says Dr. Lindley, 'that sulphate of Bibiri acts with rapid and complete success in arresting ague. This tree spreads from Jamaica to the Spanish Main.
As to the custom of sacrificing one of a plague-stricken herd or flock for the purpose of saving the rest, see below, pp. 300 sqq. John Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, New Edition, revised by J. Longmuir and D. Donaldson, iii. Surv. Caithn., pp. 200, 201." R.C. Maclagan, "Sacred Fire," Folk-lore, ix. pp. 280 sq.
'No-o one half-minute, old man; stick your hand out against the dark of the wall-paper you only burble and call me names. That left shoulder's out of drawing. I must literally throw a veil over that. Where's my pen-knife? Well, what about Maclagan? 'I only gave him his riding-orders to to lambast you on general principles for not producing work that will last.
He was elected to the Council, not by political firebrands, but by a sober constituency specially constituted to represent the Punjab Industries, and in courageously choosing him to be one of his new Ministers, the Governor, Sir Edward MacLagan, gave a striking demonstration, of which the effect has not been confined to the Punjab, of the profound change that has been wrought in the attitude of the official world towards the politically minded classes.
Morehead, Alexander Negris, Alexander Sutherland, William Tennant, and William Weir. E. Hamilton, Mrs. Hemans, W. M. Hetherington, Alexander Maclagan, John Malcolm, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Doyne Sillery, Thomas Stoddart, William Tennant, James Thomson, Alaric A. Watts, and Mrs. Grant of Laggan. A rare combination of talent!
'Just imagine, Dick continued, 'if we could publish a few of these dear little things every time the Nilghai subsidises a man who can write, to give the public an honest opinion of my pictures. 'Well, you'll admit I always tell you when I have done anything of that kind. I know I can't hammer you as you ought to be hammered, so I give the job to another. Young Maclagan, for instance
Thus there were amongst them not merely James and John, Matthew and Thomas, but even Philip and Bartholomew. The Philip here referred to was Dr. Philip Whiteside Maclagan, a brother of the present Archbishop of York and of the late Professor Sir Douglas Maclagan. Dr.
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