This paper is enumerated by Chalmers among those which Johnson dictated, not to Bathurst, but to Hawkesworth.

The Dean was an enthusiastic admirer of Dr. Chalmers, and on the evening of March 4, 1849, he read a memoir of the life and labours of Chalmers at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Thus Bisset as well as Chalmers in the Dedication to Vol.

p. lx., an instance may be seen of a positive misstatement by Mr. Collier, of which, whatever the motive or the manner, the result is to deprive Chalmers of a microscopic particle of antiquarian credit and to bestow it upon himself.