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It is with infinite concern the Committee has to
inform the Society of the death of its excellent co-
adjutor, Dr D. Smith, who died, after a very short
illness, on the very day (22d May 1805) when the
last of his labours in its service, the concluding
sheet of this Appendix, issued from the press. The
Committee has to sympathize with every lover of
Celtic literature, on the loss of a scholar and anti-
quarian, whose extent of knowledge, whose acute-
ness, and whose industry, have seldom been equal-
ed. Its acquaintance with him, on occasion of com-
piling this Report, induces the Committee to add
another praise, not less juft, nor less honourable,
though of less general concern, in its sincere regrets
for the loss of those many virtues and eftimable
qualities (not less estimable for the simple and un-
assuming manners that accompanied them) which
Dr Smith possessed as a man.
FINIS.
PrinUiiy C.Stewart, EJidurgL
It is with infinite concern the Committee has to
inform the Society of the death of its excellent co-
adjutor, Dr D. Smith, who died, after a very short
illness, on the very day (22d May 1805) when the
last of his labours in its service, the concluding
sheet of this Appendix, issued from the press. The
Committee has to sympathize with every lover of
Celtic literature, on the loss of a scholar and anti-
quarian, whose extent of knowledge, whose acute-
ness, and whose industry, have seldom been equal-
ed. Its acquaintance with him, on occasion of com-
piling this Report, induces the Committee to add
another praise, not less juft, nor less honourable,
though of less general concern, in its sincere regrets
for the loss of those many virtues and eftimable
qualities (not less estimable for the simple and un-
assuming manners that accompanied them) which
Dr Smith possessed as a man.
FINIS.
PrinUiiy C.Stewart, EJidurgL
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| Description | Drawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.1.d.31 |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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