COLD STREAM

John ( only son of Robert Cold stream of Leith, merchant ). b. Leith 19 March 1806; ed. at Leith, High sch. Edin. and Univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson of Leith 1823; entered Royal Medical Society 19 Nov. 1824; studied in Paris 1827–28; practised at Leith 1828–47; mem. of Wernerian Society 9 Jany. 1830; enrolled as Fellow for life of Botanical Soc. 9 Dec. 1858, date of di olution of Wernerian Soc.; F.R.C.P. 1845; removed to Edinburgh 1847; mem. of Royal Physical Society 17 Feb. 1849, one of the presidents 4 Dec. 1850. d. Irthing house near Car lisle 17 Sept. 1863. J. H. Balfour’s Biography of the late John Cold stream (1865), portrait .