The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 32] 1899 [OCTOBER 



IN MEMORIAM GEORGE WALKER ORD. 



GEORGE WALKER ORD, whose untimely end Scottish 

 naturalists must deplore, was the son of a farm-servant, and 

 was born in the parish of King Edward in Aberdeenshire. 

 His early life was spent in Macduff. His school-days over,, 

 he went to Glasgow, entering the service of the Corporation 

 as a boy in Kelvingrove Museum. In this service he re- 

 mained till the end. He died from an attack of peritonitis 

 after three days' illness, at his residence, 6 Craignestock 

 Place, Glasgow, on the Qth of August, aged 28 years, and 

 was interred in Sighthill Cemetery. 



Ord received an elementary education at Murray's 

 School and the Public School, Macduff, and early dis- 

 tinguished himself. From the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment he obtained an honours certificate with a high place 

 in the order of merit in Principles of Agriculture, when he 

 was fourteen years of age. He supplemented his schooling 

 when he came to Glasgow, and between 1892 and the year 

 of his death he attended classes in the Glasgow and West 

 of Scotland Technical College, the Athenaeum, and the 

 University of Glasgow. At the Athenaeum examinations 

 in French and Spanish, in two years, he gained S in money 

 prizes. He took the first prize in Chemistry (Second 

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