Fig. 104.—Alexander MacTier Pirrie 
“The death took place on November 12th. 1907, at the Chalmers Hospital, 
Edinburgh, of Alexander MacTier Pirrie. B.Sc.. M.B.. Ch.B., his life being thus 
cut short just at the time when he had laid what seemed the sure foundation of 
a career of much scientific distinction. He was a son of the late Alexander 
Pirrie. C.E., and, after the completion of his general education, became an 
undergraduate of the University of Edinburgh, and in 1904 received the degree of 
B.Sc.. taking honours in Anthropology. Two years later he received the M.B., Ch.B. 
from the same University. He was then appointed Carnegie Research Fellow 
in Anthropology, and at once went out to the Wellcome Research Laboratories, 
in Khartoum, in Upper Egypt, in the position of Anthropologist to that Institution. 
Soon after his arrival he began a series of scientific expeditions, and completed 
two in the short period of seven or eight months that he was able to remain in 
Egypt ... All must regret the loss of one whose early career seemed to 
suggest that it would oe his lot to add considerably to the sum of existing 
knowledge." Hritis/i Medical Journal. 
