AGLOMBY ROSS, M.A., LL.D., an eminent teacher and scholar, and for 25 years rector of the High School of Edinburgh, was born at Holywood in Dumfriesshire in 1778. He received the elements of his education at the Wallace Hall Academy, where he afterwards acted as assistant for two years. In 1801 he was elected to the rectorship of the Dumfries Grammar School, and in 1806 to a mastership in the High School of Edinburgh. When the rectorship of that latter seminary became vacant in 1820, it was conferred upon Mr Carson, who held it till his retirement in 1845. In 1826 his services to the cause of classical learning in Scotland were acknowledged by the University of St Andrews, which conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. His excellent editions of Phaedrus, Tacitus, and other classics, are still extensively used in Scotland; but his most important work is his Rules for the Construction of the Relative Qui, Quae, Quod, established by a copious selection of Examples from Classical Authors; a treatise to whose merits emphatic testimony has been borne by the most eminent scholars of the day. (See Dr Parr's works, vol. viii. pp. 533-54.) Dr Carson died in 1850.