URE, ANDREW, a chemist of considerable repute, was born in Glasgow in 1778. After completing his literary education at the university of his native city, he subsequently studied medicine in Edinburgh, and took his degree of M.D. in Glasgow in 1801. He was appointed next year professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in the Andersonian Institution in the latter city; and in 1809 he took an active part in the establishment of the Glasgow Observatory, of which he was appointed astronomer on its completion. In 1813, he published a Systematic Table of the Materia Medica, and in 1818 he read a memoir before the Royal Society, on "New Experimental Researches on some of the leading doctrines of Caloric," which was subsequently published in the Philosophical Transactions, and which established his reputation as a natural philosopher. He published a very extensive and accurate Dictionary of Chemistry in 1821, and next year he published a valuable paper in the Philosophical Transactions, "on the Ultimate Analysis of Animal and Vegetable Substances." Passing over his translation of Berthollet's work on Dyeing, which he executed in 1824, and the System of Geology, published in 1829, in which the author advocates the exploded Noachian theory of the deluge, we come to 1830, when Dr Ure removed to London. In 1834, he was appointed chemist to the Board of Customs. His works on the Philosophy of Manufactures in 1835, and on the Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain in 1836, and especially his great Dictionary of the Arts and Manufactures in 1839, served to show what a rich field of materials he had fallen upon in London, and how ingeniously and simply he could explain whatever he took in hand. Ure was a fellow of numerous scientific societies, both British and foreign. He died in London on the 23rd of January 1857.