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Excerpt from In Memoriam: George R. Mather, M. D
The Children of Caledonia are, as a' rule, not behind in commemorating the mighty dead of their country, and it is a matter much to be regretted that whilst London and Oxford have each a memorial of the Hunters, Glasgow and Lanarkshire have raised no statue in their honour. 1by some it may be said that such men need no monument; that tributes of this kind may be required by men whose Chief eminence has been the amassing 'of wealth, or by men of superficial popularity, but that in the case of the Hunters any such thing is super?uous. The obvious and sufficient answer to any such argument is that when Dr. Mather's book appeared the memory of these men was, amongst their own countrymen, the property of the few; the many had forgotten them altogether.
Had Dr. Mather lived, an appeal would have been made for the funds necessary to erect statues Of the Hunters to be placed somewhere in Glasgow. On this he had Set his heart; and, by his death.
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