224 TRAiS'SAGTlONS AND PliOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. LXiii. 



At present the majority of scientific men believe that 

 Murray and Wallicli were right, Huxley and Hreckel wrong. 



In 1898, Dr. Wallich was awarded the gold medal of 

 the Linneau Society, in recognition of his researches into 

 the problems connected with bathybial and pelagic life. 



He died in London, on the 31st March 1899, in his 

 eighty-fourth year, after a very exceptional career, having 

 distinguished himself in youth as an operative surgeon, — in 

 old age, as a man of science. 



Obituauy Notice of the l.\te James Edward Tierney 

 AiTCHisox, M.D., CLE., F.li.S., Surgeon -]\Iajor Bengal 

 Army. By J. PiUtherfokd Hill. 



(Kead 8tli December 1898.) 



James Edward Tierney Aitchison was the second son of 

 Major James Aitchison, H.E.LC.S., and was born at Nimach, 

 Central India, on 28th October 1835. He accompanied 

 his parents to Scotland in 1844, and attended the village 

 school at Lasswade, Midlothian, where he had as a school- 

 mate the late Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison. Afterwards 

 he attended the Dalkeith High School and the Edinburgh 

 Academy. From early childhood he had a desire to become 

 a doctor, and from the Academy he passed to the University, 

 where he studied Medicine and Surgery, and graduated M.D. 

 and L.E.C.P. in 185G. He was of a very lively disposition, 

 and fond of all sorts of games — quoits, cricket, tenuis, etc. 

 He was an abstainer and a non-smoker. He was very fond 

 of reading history and travels. Both his parents are said 

 to have had a great love of flowers ; and his mother, 

 Mary Turner, sister of John William Turner, Professor of 

 Surgery in Edinburgh, had a knowledge of botany. It is 

 interesting to note that in his student days he was an 

 enthusiastic field botanist, and gained a first-class certificate 

 in tlie botany class herbarium competition in 1854, for a 

 collection of 530 plants, gathered, pressed, mounted, and 

 arranged in the comparatively short period of four months. 

 One of his fellow-students. Dr. Peter Hume M'Laren, 

 informs me that he always showed a predilection for the 

 pursuit of botany. Dr. M'Laren and he were colleagues 



