OBITUARIES. 



WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, M.D., F.R.S. 



Born at Ancrum Craig, Roxburghshire, April 20, 1839 ; 

 Died at Edinburgh, February 21, 1899. 



This eminent physiologist was a graduate of Edinburgh University (1863). 

 After a period of continental study he became assistant to Prof. Hughes Bennett 

 (1865), and Professor of Physiology in King's College, London (1869). He 

 occupied this Chair for five years, during the last three of which he was also 

 Fullerian Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution. From London he 

 returned to Edinburgh in 1874, as successor to Prof. Hughes Bennett. His 

 great gifts as a teacher and as an organiser raised the physiological department 

 in Edinburgh to a position of proud prominence, and many now famous workers 

 served their apprenticeship in his laboratories. His most important researches 

 were concerned with the action of drugs on the secretion of bile, and with the 

 structure of striped muscle ; but his work as a professor was even greater. 

 A lucid but dogmatic teacher, an eloquent lecturer, a skilful experimenter, a 

 laborious student, a lover of music, — a remarkable personality, he will not 

 soon be forgotten. 



SIR JOHN STRUTHERS, M.D., LL.D. 



Born at Dunfermline, 1823 : Died at Edinburgh, February 24, 1899. 



From 1841, when he began to study medicine in Edinburgh, till shortly before 

 his death, John Struthers maintained an untiring industry. As Extra-mural 

 Lecturer on Anatomy in Edinburgh (1847), as Professor of Anatomy in 

 Aberdeen (1863-1889), as a member of the General Medical Council, as 

 President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1895-1897), as a 

 student of the structure of Cetacea, he did what his hand found to do with all 

 his might. He will be long remembered as one who helped to raise the standard 

 of anatomical teaching, as a loyal servant of his University who contributed 

 not a little to its advancement and extension, as a shrewd reformer of medical 

 education, as an early exponent of evolution views in days when they were less 

 popular than now, and as an anatomist with an infinite capacity for taking 

 pains. 



WILHELM BARNIM DAMES. 



Born June 4, 1843; Died December 22, 1898. 



By the death of Prof. Dames Germany has lost one of its foremost palaeonto- 

 logists. During the whole of his career, from 1871 onwards, he was associated 

 with the University of Berlin, first as Custos in the Museum (1875), next as 



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