MEMOIR XV11 packed, and in four months’ time he received the offer to become minister of the parish of Old Aberdeen. He himself attributed the returning desire of study and theological research, not only to the quiet ensuing upon a more regular and compassable sphere of duty, but to the associations of learning connected with Old Aberdeen, the seat of the ancient University. Perhaps it was also in part due to the inspiration of home influence that, resuming once more his old favourite pursuits, he now devoted himself largely to literature. His studies, ardently pursued far into the night, soon began to produce appreciable results. His first book was a translation into English of Chalybaus’ ‘ History of Speculative Philosophy,’ to which the late Sir William Hamilton wrote an introduction. Dr. Chalybaus was decanus of the philosophical faculty at Kiel, and that University acknowledged this work, to- gether with various other contributions which Mr. Edersheim had made to the better knowledge of German philosophy in England, by conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The transla- tion of the ‘ History of Speculative Philosophy’ was speedily followed by that of Kurtz’s ‘ History of the Old Covenant,’ vol.1., together with a condensed abstract of a