Dicks on, William Purdie

D.D. (St. Andrew's, 1865), LL.D. (Edinburgh, 1885), Church of Scotland; b. at Pet tina in Manse, Lan arks hire, Scotland, Oct. 22, 1823; graduated at the University of St. Andrew's, 1851; became minister of the parish of Cameron, Fife, 1851; profe or in the University of Glasgow, of biblical criticism 1863, and of divinity 1873. Since 1874 he has been convener of the Education Committee of the Church of Scotland, having charge of the training colleges in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; and since 1866 the curator of the university library of Glasgow, and hence superintendent of the preparation of the new printed catalogue, of which the alphabetic form was completed in 1885, in twenty volumes, and of the seventeen volumes of the subject catalogue already i ued. Besides various articles in Fair bairn's Imperial Bible Dictionary, Smith's Dictionary of Christian Biography, The Academy, The Expositor, etc., he has published a translation of Mommsen's History of Rome, London, 1862-66, 4 vols., revised ed. 1868; and of Meyer's Commentary on the New Testament, Edinburgh, 1873-80, 16 vols, (of which ten were revised by him throughout); St. Paul's Use of the Terms Flesh and Spirit (Baird lecture for 1883), Glasgow, 1883.