. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. to theothers, and not so well known. A selectionfrom his contributions to Blackwoods Magazinewas published by himself in 1842, in 3 vols. 8vo,bearing the title of Recreations of ChristopherNorth, but these conveyed but an inadequate ideaof his vast and diversified genius. In 1849, when the Philosophical Institution WILSON, 655 JOHN. was formed in Edinburgh, Professor Wilson waselected its first president, and delivered an open-ing address. In 1851 an honorary pension of£3
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. to theothers, and not so well known. A selectionfrom his contributions to Blackwoods Magazinewas published by himself in 1842, in 3 vols. 8vo,bearing the title of Recreations of ChristopherNorth, but these conveyed but an inadequate ideaof his vast and diversified genius. In 1849, when the Philosophical Institution WILSON, 655 JOHN. was formed in Edinburgh, Professor Wilson waselected its first president, and delivered an open-ing address. In 1851 an honorary pension of£300 a-year was conferred on him by the govern-ment, and tlie following spring he gave in his re-signation to the college patrons, without anyclaim to a retiring allowance. His health did notseem then in a precarious state, but shortly after-wards it began to give way. Partial loss of powerin the lower limbs was succeeded by nervousweakness, and after having had three shocks ofparalysis, he died at Edinburgh on the morningof the 3d April 1854, and was buried in the Deancemetery of that city. His portrait is One of his daughters married William Edmon-stone Ay ton, Esq., professor of rhetoric and belleslettres in the university of Edinburgh, and authorof Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and otherpoems; and another, John Thomson Gordon,Esq., sheriff of Mid Lothian. One of his sisterswas the mother of Professor Ferrier of St. An-drews, who married his cousin, a daughter of Pro-fessor Wilson. Another sister was the wife ofSir John Macueill, formerly British envoy to thecourt of Persia, and brother of the Right Macneill, lord-justice-general of Scotland. Professor Wilsons fame rests on the great con-tributions he has made to the literature of Scot-land as a poet, a critic, and a philosopher, andparticularly on his writings in Blackwoods Mag-azine. After his death, his works, edited by hisson-in-law, Professor Ferrier, were published byMessrs. Blackwood, in the fo
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