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books.google.com - Obituary notices are included in many of the volumes....https://books.google.com/books/about/Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edin.html?id=PmlUAAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareProceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh