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Sir Robert, a Scotch physician, born in Edinburgh, July 18, 1797, attained eminence as a toxicologist, profe or of medical jurisprudence, and author, He died Jan. 27, 1882,; Christmas, the festival of the Nativity of Christ, observed by the Christian Church yearly on the 25th of December, commonly accepted as the date of the birth of Christ. ri Christmas Island, a British island in the Pacific, with some guano deposits. Another Christmas Island, annexed to Great Britain in 1888, lies about 250 miles 8S. W. of Java, is 6 miles long by 4 broad, partly volcanic, partly coralline in structure. _'There is a third Christmas Island off Cape Breton.