Note 23 — I. HUMOROUS.

David MacBeth Moir, better known as “Delta,” was born at Musselburgh in 1798. He studied for the medical profession, qualified early, and from his eighteenth year was a practitioner in his native town. Amid the cares of his profession he found time to cultivate literature. He contributed to the Edinburgh Magazine from its commencement, and for many years was a frequent writer to Blackwood. His contributions to the latter of these miscellanies were occasionally signed with the Greek Δ (Delta), and in time he came to be better known by the initial than by his name. He died at Dumfries in 1851.