MACNISH, ROBERT, M.D. and LL.D., was born in Glasgow in 1802, where he practised as a physician, and made extensive contributions to magazine literature under the name of "The Modern Pythagorean." He found leisure also to produce some works of very considerable merit on subjects demanding much patient inquiry and thoughtful sagacity. The best known of these are his Anatomy of Drunkenness, Philosophy of Sleep, Metempsychosis, and Book of Aphorisms. He died in 1837.