Towards the end of 1838 a question arose as to the best site for the proposed Scott memorial at Edinburgh, and a writer in the _Architectural Magazine_ quoted "Kata Phusin" as the authority in such matters, saying that it was obvious, after those papers of his, that design and site should be simultaneously considered; on which the editor "begs the favour of 'Kata Phusin' to let our readers have his opinion on the subject, which we certainly think of considerable importance." So he discussed the question of monuments in general, and of this one in particular, in a long paper, coming to no very decided opinion, but preferring, on the whole, a statue group with a colossal Scott on a rough pedestal, to be placed on Salisbury Crags, "where the range gets low and broken towards the north at about the height of St.Anthony's Chapel." His paper did not influence the Edinburgh Committee, but it was not without effect, as the following extract shows.
"BAYSWATER, _November_ 30, 1838.
"DEAR SIR,--...

Your son is certainly the greatest natural genius that ever it has been my fortune to become acquainted with, and I cannot but feel proud to think that at some future period, when both you and I are under the turf, it will be stated in the literary history of your son's life that the first article of his which was published was in _London's Magazine of Natural History._--Yours very sincerely, "J.C.

LOUDON".