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28 June 1879. _Academy_, _ii_ 102, 107 (1879); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 174 (1879), _portrait_; _J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes_, _i_, _pp. xiii–xix_ (1881), _memoir and portrait_. JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT CAMPBELL (3 son of sir Alexander Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). _b._ Colombo, Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33; private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S. Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843 to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888. _Athenæum_, _i_ 151 (1888). JOHNSTON, ANDREW. _b._ Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8; assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist. engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death; M.I.C.E. 1875. _d._ 1884. _Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii_ 434–5 (1884). JOHNSTON, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835; assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in Natal 1860. _d._ The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. _Medical Times 17 Aug. 1872 p._ 189. JOHNSTON, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1765; entered navy about 1787; governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806; the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A. on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. _d._ Cowhill near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856. JOHNSTON, DAVID (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul 1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A general view of the system of public education in France. Edin. 1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in France 1829. _d._ 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879. _The Academy 1879 ii p._ 321. JOHNSTON, FREDERICK. _b._ 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4 April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2 April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 Jany. 1882. JOHNSTON, GEORGE. _b._ Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed. at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick 1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc. 1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history; author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London 1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An