. Scottish notes and queries. ogists: or the Artof Pedigree-making, 1865, anil The Red Book of Men-teith Reviewed, 1881. He died in 1890. 04. Burnet, John: Founder of Aberdeen BurnetPrizes. Born in Aberdeen in 1729. Educated therehe began business as a merchant in 1750. Acquiringa considerable fortune, he bequeathed, in addition toother gifts for charitable purposes, a fund to accumulatefor 40 years al a lime, lill two prizes of not less than£1200 and £400 could be offered for Essays illustrativeof the goodness of God, without reference toRevelation. The prizes in the last competition, 1855,we
. Scottish notes and queries. ogists: or the Artof Pedigree-making, 1865, anil The Red Book of Men-teith Reviewed, 1881. He died in 1890. 04. Burnet, John: Founder of Aberdeen BurnetPrizes. Born in Aberdeen in 1729. Educated therehe began business as a merchant in 1750. Acquiringa considerable fortune, he bequeathed, in addition toother gifts for charitable purposes, a fund to accumulatefor 40 years al a lime, lill two prizes of not less than£1200 and £400 could be offered for Essays illustrativeof the goodness of God, without reference toRevelation. The prizes in the last competition, 1855,were won by Dr. Thomson, afterwards Archbishop of Vork, and Principal Tulloch, St. Andrews. 95. Burnett, John: Lawyer. Born 176J at Aber-deen, and educated there. He passed Advocate, 1785,became Sheriff of Haddington, 1805, Judge Admiralof Scotland, 1810, an 1 died the same year. Authorof a Treatise on The Criminal Jlaw of Scotland. Hisportrait is given in a sheet with other advocatesin Kays Edinburgh Portraits. W. B. K. W. \. TABLET Of THE ASSOCIATION OF POKTERS IN THE SQUAf^F TOWER TULf300TH WYNO LEITH January, 1895 W Jolly Sons January, 1895. J OUR reproduce the sculptured tablet built intothe square tower, Tolbooth Wynd, over theentrance to the Old Sugar House (/lose, is a graphic representation of the ancientmethods of handling goods, certainly veryprimitive compared with modern ways. DanielWilson, in his Memorials of Edinburgh in theOlden Timey refers to this striking piece ofsculpture, and especially to the representation ofa singularly rude specimen of mechanicalingenuity. This consists of a crane, the wholemachinery of which 1-1 comprised in one largedrum, or broad wheel, made to revolve like thewire cylinder of a squirrels (age, by a poorLabourer who occupies the quadrupeds place andclambers up, sisyphus-like, in his endlesstreadmill. The quaint operation of carrying abarrel on a sting by two men, and the ancientsailing craft, fill up one side
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