RAMSAY.
The Dean was an enthusiastic admirer of Dr.Chalmers, and on the evening of March 4, 1849, he read a memoir of the life and labours of Chalmers at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

That memoir, although it had been to a great extent anticipated by Rev.Dr.Hanna's fine and copious memoir of his father-in-law, was printed in the Society Transactions, and afterwards went through several editions when issued in a separate volume.
LORD MEDWTN to DEAN RAMSAY.
Ainslie Place, Thursday morning My dear Mr.Ramsay--I beg to thank you most truly for your very acceptable gift so kindly sent to me yesterday evening.
I had heard with the greatest satisfaction of the admirable sketch you had read to the Royal Society of the public character of the latest of our Scottish worthies--a very remarkable man in many respects; one whose name must ever stand in the foremost rank of Christian philanthropists; all whose great and various talents and acquirements being devoted with untiring energy to the one great object--the temporal and eternal benefit of mankind.

What I also greatly admired about him was that all the great adulation he met with never affected his simple-mindedness; his humility was remarkable.

There was the same absence of conceit or assumption of any kind which also greatly distinguished his great cotemporary, our friend Walter Scott; in truth, both were too far elevated above other men to seek any adventitious distinction.

I wish our country could show more men like Chalmers to hold up to imitation, or if too exalted to be imitated, yet still to be proud of; and that they were fortunate enough to have admirers such as you, capable of recording their worth in an _eloge_, such as the public has the satisfaction of receiving at your hands.