. The "Red and white" book of ad not been overtaken by the first issue,new historical facts recently brought to light, and to bring the work up to date, now com-pleting the life of the late Chief, and beginning that of the new Chief The \Vork will beof especial value to those who bear a variation or Branch name of the Clan, such asMengies, Meingies, Mendies, Mein, Mennie, Means, Meany, Meine, Meyners, Minn,Minnis, Minnus, Monies, Monzie, Dewar, Deuar, Meinnarigh, Mennarich, Menzie, Mayne,Maine, McMenzies, McMinn, McMonies, Mlver, Gledstone, Gladstone, etc., etc.—D. P. Menzies, Plea
. The "Red and white" book of ad not been overtaken by the first issue,new historical facts recently brought to light, and to bring the work up to date, now com-pleting the life of the late Chief, and beginning that of the new Chief The \Vork will beof especial value to those who bear a variation or Branch name of the Clan, such asMengies, Meingies, Mendies, Mein, Mennie, Means, Meany, Meine, Meyners, Minn,Minnis, Minnus, Monies, Monzie, Dewar, Deuar, Meinnarigh, Mennarich, Menzie, Mayne,Maine, McMenzies, McMinn, McMonies, Mlver, Gledstone, Gladstone, etc., etc.—D. P. Menzies, Plean Castle, Mengieston, Plean, Stirlingshire. In dedicating the Second Edition of the Red and White Book of Menzies to thememory of the eminent Dr. Thomas Menzies, CM., my Grandfather, I think it wellto give a few extracts of his career, as given in numerous publications:— Dr. Menzies came down from the Highlands of Perthshire, on one of the old mailcoaches to the ancient University of Glasgow, as a student of surgery and medicine, and. Dr. Thom,\s Menzies, there became a lecturer on surgery, and a noted doctor of medicine with a large his student days subjects for the dissecting knife were very difficult to was a common thing for the students to make up a party to visit the graveyards undercover of night, open the graves, and carry away the bodies. On one occasion he was oneof such a party, who had unearthed a body at the Cathedral. Notwithstanding the armedwatchers who by turns watched the graveyards in those days, they succeeded in putting itinto a sack, and got it to the low wall at the south-east corner of the Cathedral, not far from the spot where the doctors remains now rest. Here they laid down the sack, andDr. Menzies mounted the wall to help it over, when one of the party knocked down somestones, causing a noise which roused the wearied watchers, who dimly saw the figure ofthe doctor on the wall, and at once fired. The doctor instantl
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