Johu Wilson, D.D., born in the Berwick shire burgh of Lauder, 1804, died at Bombay, 1st December 1878.
From his cindlo Ho was a scholar, and a ripe and good ono ; And, to add greater honour to his ago Than man could give him, he died fearing Heaven.' He was the first English scholar to ',ulster the original Zend texts, and he was the first mis sionary to educate and admit to the Christian church two converts from tho faith of Zoroaster. Native female education was cotnmenced by him self and his family, and before 1839 there were native girls' schools established in Bombay and its neighbourhood, under Dr. Wilson's superintend ence, attended by between three and four hundred pupils. He delivered lectures on Natunil History, Early Church History, Early Indian History, Indian Antiquities, Indian Ethnography, and the Doctrines of the Bible. His work on the Religion of the Parsecs was published ii, 1843. A few years later, his Lands of the Bible, a storehouse of Biblical research. Ilis next works of importance were his History. of tho Suppression of Infanticide in Western India ; ' Exposure of Hinduism, Bornbay 1832 ; Lecture on the Vendidad Sadi, 1833 ; Refutation of Muhammadanism in Oriental Christian Spectator, 1833, Bombay 1834, 1840 ; Secoud Exposure of Hinduism, Bombay 1834 ; Letter to Jainayriests of Palitana, Bombay 1835, 1837, 18,52 ; Discourse on tho British Sovereignty in India, 1835 and 1837 ; Translation of the general Sirozel, of the l'arsees, Loud. As. Trans. 1837, iv. ; Lotter on
Girnar Tablets, As. Trans. 1838 ; Noto on the Worship of Vetal, Lond. AL Trans. v. 1839 ; Sermon to the l'arsees, with an Account of their Settlement in India, etc., 1839, 1847 ; Notes on the Kissah-i-Sanjan, or Arrival of the Parsecs in India, traeslated by Lieutenant E. B. Eastwick, in Boni. As. Trans. 1842, No. iv. ; Vendidad Sadi, etc., in the ?And, with Framji Aspendiargi's Gujerati translation, 1842 ; Zarthusht-Namah of Zarthust Berham, in Persian, London 1842 ; Account of the 1Varalis and Katodis, two forest tribes, Land. As. Trans. 1843, vii.; The Parsee Religion, as contained in tho Zend-Avesta, etc., Bombay 1843 ; on the Sacred Literature of the Hindus, North British Review, 1844 ; Lands of the Bible visited and described, 2 vols., Edinburgh and London 1847 ; Brief Notes on certain Parthian, Bactrian, aud Iridian Coins, in Boni. AL January 1840 ; Memoir on the Cave Temples and .Monasteries, and other Ancient Buddhist, Brah manical, and Jaina Reniaim of Western India, in Born..As. Trans January 1850 ; the Ilazors of Scripture, with the Identification of Hazer of Kedar, Boni. As. Trans. 1852 ; Second Memoir on the Cave Temples, etc., ibid. ; India Three Thousand Years Ago, Bombay 1858.—Dr. Buises Cut.