OBITUAKIES. 



GEORGE OGILVIE-FORBES, eldest son of John Charles 

 Ogilvie, ]\I.D., physician in Aberdeen, and grandson of 

 George Ogilvie of Auchiries, Aberdeenshire, was born at Aberdeen, 

 in 1820. He was educated at the Grammar School and the Uni- 

 versity of x\berdeen (Marischal College), where he gained various 

 prizes, and took the degree of A.M. in 1839. He studied medi- 

 cine at Edinburgh, where he took his M.D. in 1842. 



Having spent two years in travel and farther study at London, 

 Paris and Vienna, and in other parts of Europe (in company with 

 his brother, the late Dr. John Forbes Ogilvie of Alexandria, 

 Egypt), he returned to Aberdeen in 1844, and there entered 

 upon practice. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Lecturer 

 on Physiology in the Medical School of King's College, Old 

 Aberdeen. In 1849, he was transferred to the corresponding post 

 in Marischal College : and, on the fusion of the two universities 

 in i860, he was appointed Regius Professor of the Institutes of 

 Medicine (or Physiology) in the University of Aberdeen, a position 

 which he occupied until 1877, when he resigned in consequence 

 of failing health. His tastes had always led him to prefer study 

 and research to practice ; and on his appointment to the Chair of 

 Physiology, he withdrew from practice entirely. 



In 1876, he succeeded (under a deed of entail which required 

 him to assume the surname of Forbes) to the estate of his mother's 

 family, the Forbeses of Boyndlie. At this place, he resided from 

 the date of his retirement from the professorship until his death, 

 on the 25th of June of last year. During these, his latter years, 

 being debarred by the state of his health from active mental 

 exertion, he followed the quiet pursuits of a country life ; and in 

 particular indulged his life-long taste for botany by devoting him- 

 self to the planting and culture of trees. 



Iu 1849, Dr. ^gilvie-Forbes married Jane, daughter of the late 

 Robert Cordiner of Peterhead. Mrs. Ogilvie-Forbes survives him ; 

 .and he leaves also, a son and a daughter. 



