Duns, John

D.D. (Amherst, U S. A., 1863), F.R.S.E., F.S.A., Scot. Free Church; b. at Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, July 11, 1820; educated at Edinburgh University, 1843; became pastor of the Free Church, 1844; profe or of natural science, New College, Edinburgh, 1864. He has been editor of the North British Review since 1857; was elected a fellow of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh, 1864, and president 1868; a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Scotland, 1874, and a vice-president 1879; corresponding member of the New-York and of the Philadelphia Academies of Science, 1877. He is the author of Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Martin Bath gate and of Profe or Fleming, D.D., F.R.S.E. (both Science and Christian Thought, 1866; and of numerous scientific articles and contributions.