...y complimentary and gratifying. In a letter written on the occasion by Professor David Fordyce, he says, I am glad that, by our dispatch of what ought to have been dispatched long ago, we prevented Mr. Foster 's declining what so well becomes him to receive, and us to confer. I assure you, sincerely, we rather seek to reflect honour on ourselves, than to do you honour, by rightly placing the academical d...