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OBITUARY NOTICES 



OF 



FELLOWS DECEASED. 



PART ii. 



[Reprinted from ' Year-book of the Royal Society,' 1902 and 1903.] 



SIR ANDEEW CLARK, BART. 1825 (?) 1893. 



The long delay which has occurred in the appearance of an obituary 

 notice of our distinguished Fellow, Sir Andrew Clark, has been due 

 in part to the hope that the promised volume of his biography might 

 be available for our sketch. It has, however, not yet appeared, and 

 we must not wait for it any longer. 



Sir Andrew Clark was born in Aberdeen about the year 1825. His 

 parents both died when he was very young. He had never known 

 them, and, curiously, he went through life in the belief that he was a 

 year or two younger than his real age. It is possible, indeed, that the 

 discrepancy was greater than is suggested, for if his birth be placed in 

 1825 instead of 1826 (as he thought) it still makes him only 19 at the 

 time that he obtained the diploma of the London College of Surgeons. 

 The age of 21 is required at this College by statute. Sir Andrew died 

 on November 6, 1893, having then, presumably, reached the age of 

 68 or 69. His death was caused by a stroke of apoplexy, which took 

 him whilst in the full enjoyment of health and mental vigour. He 

 was at the time of his death President of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, and also of the foremost Medical Society in London the 

 Royal Medical and Chirurgical. To his duties in connection with 

 these presidencies, and more especially with the first, a large share ot 

 his time and energies during the last few years of his life had been 

 devoted, 



He received his medical education partly at Dundee and in part at 

 Edinburgh, and he held various appointments as assistant to his 

 professors at a very early age. Soon after obtaining his diploma he 



